To commit suicide is a weighty and personal matter, decency would have one take care of this business all on their own, without notifying anyone, let alone get several people to help you organize your sign-off party. But this is just what Monsieur Bernheim (France's eminent actor André Dussolier) asked of his two daughters, Emmanuelle (Sophie Marceau) and her sister (Geraldine Pailhas) after suffering a debilitating stroke, with more such events predicted

Four songs and four seasons provide the pace of “Young and beautiful” (title in French: "Jeune et Jolie"), the absorbing new film by France's Francois Ozon (“The swimming pool”) which comes out this week. But the film's neat organization serves another purpose: to make the whiplash effect that's felt later on even cruder.

As he's done in previous films Ozon frames family carefully: he plies us with all its clichés

Four songs and four seasons provide the pace in “Young and beautiful,” (original title: "Jeune et Jolie") the engrossing film by France’s filmmaker Francois Ozon (“The swimming pool”) in competition this year. They provide a neat way to organize the film but also reinforce our oh-so-wrong expectations as we settle into the quaint family vignettes which he tenders in the first part of his film: a semi-normal family (they

A sixteen year-old boy, Claude, (Ernst Unhauer) gradually insinuates himself […]

French film director François Ozon won the Golden Shell for Best Picture at the 60th San Sebastian Film Festival during a ceremony on Saturday for his film “In the house.” [François Ozon directed "The Swimming Pool" and more recently "Potiche," both of which are on Netflix] In his film, which was loosely adapted from a play by Spanish playwright JuanMayorga, actor Fabrice Luchini ("The Women on the Sixth Floor") brilliantly

French actress Catherine Deneuve has never been terribly hip, thank […]