François Ozon

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François Ozon with Paula Beer at the premiere of Frantz 2016
François Ozon (2012)

François Ozon (born November 15, 1967 in Paris ) is a French film director and screenwriter .

biography

François Ozon is the son of the French teacher Anne-Marie Ozon and the biologist René Ozon. In his childhood he worked as a child model. He studied directing at the French film school La Fémis . After several short films, his almost one-hour film Views of the Sea in 1997 made him better known. A year later he made his first feature film, the farce sitcom .

His previous films fall mainly into two categories: shrill farces that are reminiscent of the early Pedro Almodóvar and, completely contrary to this, careful character studies, in which Ozone's predilection for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's work can be seen and in which Ozone succeeds in creating a very dense one To convey atmosphere and high tension.

In addition to sitcom , Ozone's most famous film 8 Women to date , a shrill crime comedy in which all eight actresses (including Catherine Deneuve , Isabelle Huppert , Emmanuelle Béart , Danielle Darrieux and Fanny Ardant ) sing and dance a musical number, falls into the first category .

The second variety includes Views of the Sea (an abysmal two-person play with a shocking ending), above all Drops on Hot Stones , an adaptation of the play of the same name by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Unter dem Sand with Charlotte Rampling as a woman who cannot overcome the death of her husband can, and Swimming Pool , also with Charlotte Rampling, here as an aging English writer who is staying in her publisher's French villa to overcome writer's block and is suddenly confronted with his young daughter ( Ludivine Sagnier ).

Many of Ozone's films have in common a very direct and open approach to the sexuality of his characters (especially a criminal couple , drops on hot stones and a swimming pool ), the restriction to a very small number of characters (especially looks at the sea with two, drops on hot stones with four and 8 women with a total of nine figures, but also swimming pool , in which, in addition to the two main characters, all other characters are only of marginal interest) and the specialization in female figures (especially views of the sea , under the sand , 8 women and swimming pool ).

In 2012, Ozon was appointed to the competition jury of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . In the same year he presented his feature film In Her House at the Toronto International Film Festival . The thriller about the relationship between a teacher (portrayed by Fabrice Luchini ) and his literary student ( Ernst Umhauer ) won the main prize of the Spanish Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián in 2012 with the “ Golden Shell ” .

In 2013, Ozon für Jung & Schön received its second invitation to the competition at the Cannes Film Festival . The film focuses on a young schoolgirl ( Marine Vacth ) who is finding herself experiencing prostitution. With Vacth he also directed the erotic thriller The Other Lover in 2017, for which he received an invitation to the competition for the " Palme d'Or " at the 70th Cannes Film Festival in 2017 .

Filmography (selection)

Short films:

literature

  • Michaela Krützen, Fabienne Liptay, Johannes Wende (Eds.): Film Concepts 43. François Ozon , edition text + kritik, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86916-511-0 .
  • François Ozon , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/2008 from June 3, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • Timo Storck, Andreas Hamburger, Karin Nitzschmann, Gerhard Schneider, & Peter Bär (eds.) Francois Ozon. Deception and subjective truth. Psychosocial, Gießen 2019. ISBN 978-3-8379-2839-6 (= In Dialogue: Psychoanalysis and Film Theory, ISSN  2367-2412 , Volume 15)

Web links

Commons : François Ozon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ François Ozon wins the main prize in San Sebastian at welt.de, September 30, 2012 (accessed October 1, 2012).
personal data
SURNAME Ozone, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris