François Ozon

(book in English)

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by Andrew Asibong

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > François Ozon

Keywords

François Ozon

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Collection

French Film Directors

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 168 pages • 22 €
5 x 7 ¾ inches (12.5 x 19.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78499-283-5

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Book Presentation:
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.

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press

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