Francois Ozon’s “5X2,” like Harold Pinter’s play “Betrayal,” is a tale of blighted love told backward. But though both Pinter’s and Ozon’s stories begin at the end and proceed to the beginning–and ...

Francois Ozon cops Pinter's Betrayal shtick for this time-travelling relationship movie, and more often than not it works for him and us alike. Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Stephane Freiss star as a ...

We meet couple Marion and Gilles inside a lawyer's office just as they are completing divorce proceedings. It has been a long time coming, as the camera tells us, lingering over the actors' faces ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There are artists who spend their whole career refining a single style. Then there are those with the creative equivalent of attention ...

Director François Ozon changes genres and styles so prolifically—from the Hitchcockian thrillers See The Sea and Swimming Pool to the chamber dramas Under The Sand and Water Drops On Burning Rocks to ...

Francois Ozon's "5x2" might be described as one of those new-fashioned movies in which boy loses girl, boy gets girl, then boy meets girl: It begins at the end and ends at the beginning. There are ...

The numbers in Francois Ozon’s conjugal diagram, “5x2,” refer to five pivotal moments in the doomed relationship of a couple, recounted in reverse chronological order. Marion (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Francois Ozon, still the enfant terrible of French cinema at 39, is prolific, daring and a little nuts. Not only is the writer-director ...