Francois Ozon
‘The Crime Is Mine’ Review: Money Talks and Felony Pays in François Ozon’s Exuberant Farce
Isabelle Huppert leads a stellar supporting cast in a ’30s-set comedy toplined by Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Rebecca Marder, as roommates who find a daring way to launch their careers.
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Berlin: 3 Questions With ‘Peter von Kant’ Star Denis Ménochet
Everyone who has watched Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009) remembers the opening scene: Christoph Waltz as ice-cold Nazi Col. Hans Landa interrogating a French dairy farmer suspected of hiding Jews. Waltz’s sinister charm is more than matched by French actor Denis Ménochet as the farmer, a restrained performance where haunted silences say more than any […]
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François Ozon’s ‘Peter von Kant’: Film Review | Berlin 2022
Denis Ménochet plays the gender-flipped title character in this adoring homage to Rainer Werner Fassbinder about amour fou, humiliation and emotional martyrdom for art.
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Berlin: Francois Ozon on “Betraying Fassbinder” in Fest Opener ‘Peter von Kant’
François Ozon must be experiencing a sense of Berlin deja vu. Back in 2000, the then 32-year-old Ozon brought Water Drops on Burning Rocks to Berlin. The film is a French adaptation of a play by Ozon’s idol, the legendary German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It won Berlin’s Teddy Award for best LGBTQ feature and […]
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Francois Ozon’s Fassbinder Adaptation ‘Peter von Kant’ to Open Berlin Film Fest
Francois Ozon’s Peter von Kant, a free adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1972 masterpiece The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, will open the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival. Ozon’s adaptation gender-flips the lead role, turning Petra into Peter, played here by Inglourious Basterds actor Denis Menochet. Isabelle Adjani and Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla co-star. […]
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Cannes: ‘Feathers’ Tops Critics’ Week Prizes
Feathers, Omar El Zohairy’s comedic drama about a woman forced to deal with the aftermath of a magic trick gone awry, took the top award in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes, with the Egyptian director’s film being honored with the Nespresso Grand Prize. Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique, or Critics’ Week, had in all […]
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‘Everything Went Fine’ (‘Tout s’est bien passé’): Film Review | Cannes 2021
André Dussollier stars as a strong-willed octogenarian who asks his daughter, played by Sophie Marceau, to help end his life after a major stroke in François Ozon's assisted-suicide drama.
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