Sweeping yet intimate, and told with a classicist rigor, By the Grace of God isn’t just the most mature and elegant film from the international enfant terrible François Ozon. It’s also among the year’s most consequential and newsworthy movies, in which the recent events it dramatizes nip at the heels of history — and precedents — in the making. In France in 2016, the … [Read more...]
‘Double Lover’ audacious and erotic, but ultimately a letdown
Though it’s only arriving in Palm Beach County on Friday, it’s no coincidence that Francois Ozon’s Double Lover opened in limited U.S. release on Feb. 14, less than a week after Fifty Shades Freed tied up a few thousand screens. Though its debt is more to David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma than to E.L. James’ risible mom porn, the movies share more space on a Venn diagram that … [Read more...]