Francois Ozon
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE CRIME IS MINE a fab feminist screwball romp by French auteur François Ozon
The Crime is Mine (Mon Crime) is the latest film from prolific queer French director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Summer of 85, 8 Women), one of France’s most modern film directors. Loosely based on the 1934 play Mon Crime, Ozon’s adaptation is an amusing feminist screwball romp, championing a sorority, set in mid-1930’s…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews EVERYTHING WENT FINE the latest film from French gay auteur François Ozon
Everything Went Fine (Tout S’est Bien Passe) is the latest film by acclaimed French film director and writer Francois Ozon. Part of France’s ‘New Wave’ group of directors, Ozon is known for beautiful films with a free-wheeling attitude to human sexuality. Death is also a recurring theme and Everything Went Fine follows in this…
Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews PETER VON KANT from the French gay auteur François Ozon
IS THE VICTIM AND VICTIMIZER AN ENDEMIC DUALITY IN THE HUMAN CONDITION? The film is a free adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder´s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, a play and a movie that refer to power relations in a triangular situation between women, and gave its director the international recognition he deserved…
Summer of 85 : Ozon’s bittersweet queer teen romance
The queer French auteur François Ozon turns to a very English novel for the source of his latest bittersweet romance. Evidently, he read Aidan Chambers’s 1982 novel Dance on My Grave. when he was a teenager and this story of teen angst must have really resounded deeply with him that almost four decades later…
