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Frantz

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France, Germany · 2016
Rated PG-13 · 1h 53m
Director François Ozon
Starring Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber
Genre History, Drama, Romance

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who is grieving the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits her fiancé’s grave to lay flowers.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij

The way in which Ozon again uses mirror images, which reveal the similarities between the French and the Germans just after the war, or the way Fanny and Anna come to possibly mirror each other again suggest that a master storyteller is at work.

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Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

The pacing is so humorless and funereal that it squelches the possibility of heat or conflict arising between the characters.

40

CineVue by John Bleasdale

Ozon's Frantz is, sadly, an underwhelming tale of a European union that didn't quite make it, its chocolate box sheen belying the emptiness at its heart.

90

Screen International by Jonathan Romney

Frantz is arguably one of the straightest films Ozon has made – in both the dramatic and the sexual senses – but his complex sensibilities and fine-tuned irony are very evident in a mature work that transcends genre pastiche to be intellectually stimulating and emotionally satisfying.

67

The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Beer and Niney do solid work, but their sensitive efforts can’t quite breathe life into a story that no longer seems terribly relevant.

80

The Guardian by Nigel M Smith

Ozon is often at his best when working with women, and he has a fabulous talent in Paula Beer to bring his protagonist, Anna, to vivid life. She’s stunning in the role.

67

The Film Stage by Zhuo-Ning Su

It’s a heady hall of mirrors that keeps revealing, or at least suggesting new depths and angles. But while this kind of intense creative exercise no doubt deserves respect, ultimately one has the uneasy sense that things don’t really add up.

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