Among contemporary European filmmakers, François Ozon is perhaps the hardest to pin down. Born in Paris in 1967, he established himself in the 1990s as one of the most original voices in French cinema. His strength lies in his ability to move seamlessly across genres: from melodrama to comedy, from psychological thriller to historical film. Each new work seems to contradict the previous one, yet all bear his unmistakable signature – subtle irony, narrative freedom, and a sharp focus on power dynamics, both familial and social. Ozon observes his characters with keen insight, bringing to the screen repressed desires, ambiguous identities, and everyday tensions. His cinema is at once light and cruel, playful and restless. Constantly in motion, Ozon’s filmmaking asserts itself as a space of total freedom—capable of surprising, unsettling, and seducing—blending levity and gravity, provocation and emotion, while at the same time revealing the shadowy zones of intimacy and social relations.
Algiers, 1938. Meursault (Benjamin Voisin), a quiet and detached clerk, attends his mother’s funeral without showing any emotion. The next day he begins a relationship with Marie (Rebecca Marder), a co-worker, and soon slips back into his daily routine. But when his neighbor...
A musical whodunit with eight stars of French cinema, turning murder into a theatrical performance.
A sensual and ambiguous thriller, a hall of mirrors between reality and imagination.
A witty comedy that playfully overturns power dynamics with lightness and irony. Catherine Deneuve plays the role of a “trophy wife.”
A narrative thriller about the relationship between a teacher and his student, awarded at the San Sebastián Film Festival
An elegant black-and-white melodrama exploring guilt and reconciliation in the aftermath of war.
