Francois Ozon
Title | Francois Ozon PDF eBook |
Author | Thibaut Schilt |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2011-01-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0252093046 |
In just over a decade, François Ozon has earned an international reputation as a successful and provocative filmmaker. A student of Eric Rohmer and Jean Douchet at the prestigious Fémis, Ozon made a number of critically acclaimed shorts in the 1990s and released his first feature film Sitcom in 1998. Two additional shorts and eleven feature films have followed, including international successes 8 femmes and Swimming Pool and more recent releases such as Angel, Ricky, and Le refuge. Ozon's originality lies in his filmmaking style, which draws on familiar cinematic traditions (the crime thriller, the musical, the psychological drama, the comedy, the period piece) but simultaneously mixes these recognizable genres and renders them unfamiliar. Despite tremendous diversity in cinematic choices, Ozon's oeuvre is surprisingly consistent in its desire to blur the traditional frontiers between the masculine and the feminine, gay and straight, reality and fantasy, auteur and commercial cinema. Thibaut Schilt provides an overview of François Ozon's career to date, highlighting the director's unrestrained, voracious cinephilia, his recurrent collaborations with women screenwriters and actresses, and the trademarks of his cinema including music, dance, and the clothes that accompany these now typically Ozonian episodes. Schilt contextualizes Ozon's filmmaking within the larger fields of French filmmaking and international queer cinema, and he discusses several major themes running through Ozon's work, including obsessions with inadequate fathers, various types of mourning, and a recurring taste for "the foreign." The volume also includes an insightful interview with the director.
François Ozon
Title | François Ozon PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Asibong |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1526162679 |
Available in paperback for the first time, this is a full-length study of the films of François Ozon, director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les amants criminels. Andrew Asibong’s passionate and critical analysis focuses on the extent to which Ozon’s seemingly light touch never ceases to engage with the fundamentally weighty issue of existential transformation, a transformation that affects both his protagonists and his audiences. A central question emerges: what is at stake, cinematically, ethically and politically, in Ozon’s alternatively utopian and cynical flirtation with the construction and deconstruction of contemporary social relations. Revealing Ozon as a highly adept ‘fan’ of a whole range of thought, literature and cinema, Asibong places the precocious French auteur in an intellectual yet highly accessible critical framework, allowing Ozon’s importance for a thoroughly postmodern filmgoing generation to be given the attention it deserves.
ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon
Title | ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon PDF eBook |
Author | Loïc Bourdeau |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2021-08-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474479944 |
Examines François Ozon, one of France’s most prolific and best known international (queer) directors.
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Title | After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Rhys |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393315479 |
Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after being dropped by her latest lover, she visits London to see her ailing mother and meets up with her distrustful sister, Norah. This is a haunting picture of two desperate women in a desperate predicament.
François Ozon - Through the Looking Glass
Title | François Ozon - Through the Looking Glass PDF eBook |
Author | François Ozon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Dance on My Grave
Title | Dance on My Grave PDF eBook |
Author | Aidan Chambers |
Publisher | Harper Trophy |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Death |
ISBN | 9780064405799 |
Hal's summer affair with Barry Goldman ends tragically when Hal discovers he is much more committed to the relationship than his friend.
French Queer Cinema
Title | French Queer Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Rees-Roberts |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2008-10-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0748634193 |
French Queer Cinema examines the representation of queer identities and sexualities in contemporary French filmmaking. This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the emergence of a gay cinema in the French context since the late 1990s, including critical coverage of films by important contemporary directors such as Francois Ozon, Sebastien Lifshitz, Patrice Chereau, Andre Techine and Christophe Honore. Nick Rees-Roberts transposes contemporary Anglo-American Queer Theory to the study of French screen culture, drawing particular attention to issues of race and migration such as problematic fantasies of Arab masculinities in queer cinematic production. This theoretically-informed book engages with a number of fault-lines running through queer cultural representation in France including transgender dissent and the effects of AIDS and loss on the formation of queer identities and sexualities.