All marriages are a mystery to outsiders they say and Franois Ozon's new film succeeds in shining a light on one such mystery while somehow keeping its essential core of unknowability intact. 5x2 shows five scenes from a modern marriage in reverse order like Pinter's Betrayal. We see its disintegration from the final calamity to its genesis and gain a stunning insight into an ordinary middle-class relationship: that of Marion (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stphane F
In this French thriller from Francois Ozon Alice (Natacha Regnier) and her boyfriend Luc (Jeremie Renier) find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and then cannot find their way back out. Compared to 'The Blair Witch Project' and to 'Shallow Grave' the tale is creepy and twisting involving rape murder burying dead bodies and perhaps the worst of all: getting lost in the woods...
Suzanne (Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour, 8 Women) is a submissive, trophy wife, housebound in the French provincial town of Sainte-Gudule. When her rich husband is taken hostage by his striking workers, it is time for Suzanne to transform herself into an assertive woman of action to take charge of his umbrella factory. Complications arise in the form of the union leader, a former lover (Gerald Depardieu, Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Card) who still holds a burning flame for Suzanne...
In this French comedy a man is murdered. The suspects: eight different woman from his life.
When a British writer visits her publisher's home in the South of France, her English reserve is jarred after the publisher's reckless daughter unexpectedly arrives and sets off an unsettling series of events.
Written and Directed by Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool In The House) Jeune and Jolie (or Young and Beautiful) is a unique look at adolescent development into maturity. Whilst on holiday with her family seventeen year old Isabelle (Marine Vacth) experiences her first sexual relationship with an attractive young man named Felix (Lucas Prisor). A few days later and for no apparent reason Isabelle casts him aside and cuts off all contact with him behaving as if their encounter never happened. When she returns home to Paris Isabelle begins a dangerous new career; she sets up a profile on an escort website and lies about her age in order to make appointments with older wealthy clients in chic expensive hotel rooms. On the one hand she is a cool professional catering to the sexual whims of the various men she encounters; on the other she is maintaining the illusion of being a regular school student for her parents and friends. Her double life spirals out of control however when the unthinkable happens with one of her regular clients and she is forced to deal with the consequences of what she has been doing.
In this French comedy a man is murdered. The suspects: eight different woman from his life.
Offbeat French drama from director Fran�ois Ozon that explores the relationship between a literature student and the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture. Germain (Fabrice Luchini) usually despairs about the quality of the creative writing his pupils produce so when he receives a piece from the previously unremarkable student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) that displays promise he is moved to pledge assistance to the boy. Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that Clau...
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.
Marine Vacth (Jeune et Jolie) plays Chloé, a young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Dardennes favourite Jérémie Renier). When they decide to move in together, everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life. As she searches for the truth, Chloé s investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted. François Ozon returns with L Amant Double, a sleek but gleefully irreverent erotic thriller that sees the prolific French auteur ramping up the sexual tension while keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek. Combining Hitchcockian intrigue with nods to Brian de Palma and David Cronenberg, this is a theatre of excess that delights in keeping its audience guessing. A whirlwind of heightened senses and amped-up drama, L Amant Double is filthy, flamboyant and a whole lot of fun.
In a small German town after World War I, Anna mourns daily at the grave of her fiance Frantz, killed in battle in France. One day a young Frenchman, Adrien, also lays flowers at the grave. His presence so soon after the German defeat ignites passions.
From acclaimed director Francois Ozon (8 Women) comes the seductively sinister Swimming Pool. Sarah Morton is a best-selling murder-msytery writer, tired of London life. looking for fresh inspiration for her next novel, she accepts an invitation from her publisher John (Charles Dance) to stay in his rural French holiday home for some much needed peace and quiet....But before long the silence is shattered as John's teenage daughter, Julie, arrives without warning, and the battle begins between her easy-living and wild one-night stands and Sarah's old-fashioned values. Part siren, part seductress, Julie systematically unleashes her charms on the men of the village and seems destined for real disaster. Unsettling truths and disturbing events are unearthed as life at the house and in the village takes one bizarre turn after another. Special Features: Cast Interviews Cannes 2003 - Red Carpet Footage Stills Gallery Promo Reel & Trailers
Marine Vacth (Jeune et Jolie) plays Chloé, a young woman who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Dardennes favourite Jérémie Renier). When they decide to move in together, everything seems perfect until a series of discoveries lead her to suspect that he may be living a double life. As she searches for the truth, Chloé s investigations plunge her into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted. François Ozon returns with L Amant Double, a sleek but gleefully irreverent erotic thriller that sees the prolific French auteur ramping up the sexual tension while keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek. Combining Hitchcockian intrigue with nods to Brian de Palma and David Cronenberg, this is a theatre of excess that delights in keeping its audience guessing. A whirlwind of heightened senses and amped-up drama, L Amant Double is filthy, flamboyant and a whole lot of fun.
Offbeat French drama from director Fran�ois Ozon that explores the relationship between a literature student and the talented pupil whose gift for description he attempts to nurture. Germain (Fabrice Luchini) usually despairs about the quality of the creative writing his pupils produce so when he receives a piece from the previously unremarkable student Claude (Ernst Umhauer) that displays promise he is moved to pledge assistance to the boy. Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that Clau...
In a small German town after World War I, Anna mourns daily at the grave of her fiancé Frantz, killed in battle in France. One day a young Frenchman, Adrien, also lays flowers at the grave. His presence so soon after the German defeat ignites passions.
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Franois Ozon is one of the most provocative and vibrant filmmakers to emerge during the 1990s. His dark mordantly psychological films draw their impact from often disturbing explorations of transgression and sexuality and combine wry humour sensitivity and subversive insight with a talent for manipulation. This eclectic collection of seven shorts captures the talent Ozon would continue to display in his later feature films.
A wry and comic look at the shifting of power in sexual relationships Francois Ozon's film is adapted from a play written but never staged by the celebrated German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. When the smooth-talking Leopold (Bernard Giraudeau) a successful businessman of 50 seduces 20-year-old Franz the youngster falls under his spell and moves in with him. But Leopold soon reveals his true colours and Franz contemplates returning to her girlfriend (Ludivine Sagnier) -
One of Francois Ozon's most intimate and lyrical work 'Time to Leave' features a moving performance from Melvil Poupaud as a 30 year-old man facing up to the reality of his own mortality. With his perfect life thrown into chaos by the shock diagnosis of a serious illness fashion photographer Romain finds himself unable to share the news with his boyfriend or family confiding instead only in his grandmother (affectingly played by screen legend Jeanne Moreau). But anger and denial give way to an acceptance of sorts when a chance encounter with a waitress (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) offers Romain a glimmer of hope and the unexpected chance to leave something of himself behind.
England, 1905: Angel Deverell is a gifted young writer who dreams of success, fame and love. But what will happen if all her dreams come true?
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