Anna, a German woman, lost her fiancé Frantz during the First World War. When she visits his grave one day, she meets a young Frenchman, Adrien, who claims to have been Frantz's friend. Soon, Anna and ...
It’s a bold director who decides to remake an Ernst Lubitsch film, but François Ozon’s choice of “Broken Lullaby,” one of the master’s least known works and a drama to boot, probably seemed like a ...
Chicago-based Music Box Films has picked up all U.S. and Canadian rights to François Ozon’s “Frantz,” which is competing at the Venice Film Festival before playing at Telluride and Toronto. Inspired ...
Lubitsch's "The Broken Lullaby" gets a new life in the French director's elegant drama. Ozon captures much of the original movie’s strengths while broadening its themes, launching into richer ...
French director François Ozon is back with an unexpected film quite different to his other movies. ‘Frantz’ is a World War One period drama that looks at both the French and the German perspective. A ...
One of the best French films of the past year, Frantz is a gently haunting drama about the immovable permanence and shifting potency of personal loss. Film students who know their celluloid history ...
SUMMERFIELD, Fla. – Darold W. Frantz, 88, of Summerfield, Fla., formerly of Jamestown and Frewsburg, died, Wednesday, (Oct. 5, 2016) at his home in Florida. He was ...