In just over a decade; Franccedil;ois Ozon has earned an international reputation as a successful and provocative filmmaker. A student of Eric Rohmer and Jean Douchet at the prestigious Feacute;mis; Ozon made a number of critically acclaimed shorts in the 1990s and released his first feature film Sitcom in 1998. Two additional shorts and eleven feature films have followed; including international successes 8 femmes and Swimming Pool and more recent releases such as Angel; Ricky; and Le refuge. Ozons originality lies in his filmmaking style; which draws on familiar cinematic traditions (the crime thriller; the musical; the psychological drama; the comedy; the period piece) but simultaneously mixes these recognizable genres and renders them unfamiliar. Despite tremendous diversity in cinematic choices; Ozons oeuvre is surprisingly consistent in its desire to blur the traditional frontiers between the masculine and the feminine; gay and straight; reality and fantasy; auteur and commercial cinema.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Todd MooreA wonderfully witty adaptation. A verbal feast. The humor and passion still works.