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Sep 15, 2024 · For those interested in exploring this versatile and profound cinema, here’s the list of best French movies on Netflix, encompassing various genres like comedy, horror, lesbian-themed, and romantic movies.
- See the Sea (1997) Imagine this, a stranger who happens to be a woman walks into the lives of a mother and her child. The father is away on business. The stranger is allowed to put up a tent in the garden after much hesitation from the mother.
- 5×2 (2004) What Francois Ozon set out to accomplish with 5×2 is nothing short of interesting. Looking for ways to expose the internal struggles of a marriage, he managed to tell their story backwards chronologically giving us the opportunity to experience the disintegration of the relationship in a more unique way from how it ended to how it began.
- Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) Adapted from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play of the same name, Francois Ozon explores the play format with this film.
- In The House (2012) If it’s fair to say, this is probably Francois Ozon’s most Hitchcockian infused film most notably Rear Window mainly because of the voyeuristic theme.
- Sitcom (1998) Watch this if you like: Serial Mom (John Waters, 1994), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972) As a student, Ozon’s favourite filmmakers were John Waters and Luis Buñuel.
- Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) Watch this if you like: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) If Fassbinder had adapted his 1966 play Water Drops on Burning Rocks for the screen, one imagines it would look like The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
- Under the Sand (2000) Watch this if you like: All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) In a 2003 interview with the Daily Telegraph, Ozon dismissed Jane Wyman, the star of All That Heaven Allows, as “not a great actress”; instead, he praised Sirk for visualising her emotions in the colour scheme and landscape.
- 8 Women (2002) Watch this if you like: The Women (George Cukor, 1939) Unsurprisingly, Ozon’s international breakthrough proved to be a candy-coloured murder-mystery musical and not a transgressive shocker like Sitcom.
Despite a stunning cultural heritage and extraordinarily stiff competition, François Ozon is, by subjective laws, probably the most accomplished French director to date. This is my list of Ozon movies that I've seen, ranked from best to worst.
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1. Frantz (2016) PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance. 7.5. Rate. 73 Metascore. In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers. Director: François Ozon | Stars: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber.
Dec 20, 2023 · Ozon likes women and queerness, but to look for a rich critique of patriarchy here would be a red herring. The Crime Is Mine is a Lindy Hopping tale of media and public corruption with a sly ...
