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François Ozon

DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER

FRANCE

Tuesday 03 / 11:00

M-AVENUE THÉÂTRE MEYDENE

8 November 2024

Tuesday 03 / 11:00

M-AVENUE THÉÂTRE MEYDENE

Biographie

Passionate about cinema from a young age, François Ozon first tried his hand at directing as a teenager, filming his family with his Super 8 camera. In 1990, he enrolled in La Fémis after studying under Éric Rohmer. After making several short films, he made a name for himself with his first feature, the transgressive satire Sitcom (1998), which was followed by the thriller Criminal Lovers (1999); Water Drops on Burning Rocks (1999), adapted from an unpublished play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; and Under the Sand (2000), starring Charlotte Rampling. The musical comedy 8 Women (2002) features eight iconic actors, among them Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, and Isabelle Huppert, who together received a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Ozon has explored a variety of genres, juggling comedy, film noir, drama, and fantasy. His critical and popular successes include Swimming Pool (2003), Ricky (2009), Potiche (2010), In the House (2012), which won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the European Film Award for Best Screenplay, Young & Beautiful (2013), Frantz (2016), and L’Amant double (2017). In 2019, Ozon won the Grand Prize of the Jury in Berlin for By the Grace of God. After Summer of 85 (2020), Peter von Kant (2021), Everything Went Fine (2022), and The Crime Is Mine (2023), Ozon directed When Fall Is Coming (2024), which won the award for Best Screenplay at San Sebastián.

Passionate about cinema from a young age, François Ozon first tried his hand at directing as a teenager, filming his family with his Super 8 camera. In 1990, he enrolled in La Fémis after studying under Éric Rohmer. After making several short films, he made a name for himself with his first feature, the transgressive satire Sitcom (1998), which was followed by the thriller Criminal Lovers (1999); Water Drops on Burning Rocks (1999), adapted from an unpublished play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; and Under the Sand (2000), starring Charlotte Rampling. The musical comedy 8 Women (2002) features eight iconic actors, among them Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, and Isabelle Huppert, who together received a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Ozon has explored a variety of genres, juggling comedy, film noir, drama, and fantasy. His critical and popular successes include Swimming Pool (2003), Ricky (2009), Potiche (2010), In the House (2012), which won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the European Film Award for Best Screenplay, Young & Beautiful (2013), Frantz (2016), and L’Amant double (2017). In 2019, Ozon won the Grand Prize of the Jury in Berlin for By the Grace of God. After Summer of 85 (2020), Peter von Kant (2021), Everything Went Fine (2022), and The Crime Is Mine (2023), Ozon directed When Fall Is Coming (2024), which won the award for Best Screenplay at San Sebastián.