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 ...
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 ...
Frantz is a 2016 French-German drama film partly based on Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 film Broken Lullaby. Set during the First World War, the movie follows a young German woman who meets a mysterious man ...
Meticulous and fanciful, Frantz also offers its two lead actors roles to die for, which they duly seize and infuse with charisma and charm. The movie represents the absolute apogee of the director’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blu-ray, DVD; 2016; PG-13 for thematic elements and brief war violence; streaming via Amazon Video, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube FRENCH DIRECTOR Francois Ozon (“Swimming Pool,” “Under the Sand”) seems ...
Meticulous and fanciful, Frantz also offers its two lead actors roles to die for, which they duly seize and infuse with charisma and charm. The movie represents the absolute apogee of the director’s ...