François Ozon Collection

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Synopsis

Swimming Pool (2003): Dive into a mind-bending thriller that's soaked with raw sensuality! A murder-mystery author's search for inspiration takes a wicked turn when she meets a sexy and provocative young woman with an explosive past...

8 Women (2002): At the end of the nineteen-fifties, in a large bourgeois residence in the middle of the countryside, Christmas preparations are under way. But a drama unfolds... The master of the house is assassinated... Eight women close to the victim are present... and one of them is clearly guilty of the crime... But which one?

5x2 (Five Times Two) (2004): All marriages are a mystery to outsiders, they say, and François Ozon's new film succeeds in shining a light on one such mystery while somehow keeping its essential core of unknowability intact. 5x2 shows five scenes from a modern marriage in reverse order, like Pinter's Betrayal. We see its disintegration from the final calamity to its genesis, and gain a stunning insight into an ordinary middle-class relationship: that of Marion (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stéphane Freiss). First, the divorce proceedings, then an unhappy dinner party, the birth of the couple's only son, the wedding and finally the first meeting. The result is a shrewd, compassionate and often quite brilliant essay in the secret theatre of relationships.