Frantz

PG
2016
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113 mins
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French art-house helmer François Ozon (In The House) directs Paula Beer and Pierre Niney in a remake of Ernst Lubitsch's... More

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Frantz | Ratings & Reviews

"Love, loss, and war. It’d take you less than a minute of googling to find five masterful films that already cover those themes. It’s much harder to find a new film that can spin those ideas into a different ball of yarn. This is where Frantz surprises; it takes a seemingly standard post-war story and twists expectations – slightly but frequently – in order to find a fresh truth about what war, love and loss do to us."

Flicks, Liam MagurenFlicks

"The results are oddly more artificial than the 1932 original ['Broken Lullaby'], and considerably less moving."

VarietyVariety

"Slightly over-polite, but the sense of festering postwar anger and pain is strong."

Time OutTime Out

"As if shedding a skin, the film shucks off its elegiac, white-gloved manners to explore a slippery realm of secrets, lies and moral uncertainty that eventually leads her to consult a priest for advice on how to proceed."

The New York TimesThe New York Times

"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."

The GuardianThe Guardian

"Francois Ozon's post-WW1 period piece about a German widow and a French solder takes on xenophobic hatred that's as timely as Trump, making Frantz is a film of its time ... and ours."

Rolling StoneRolling Stone

"More than once, "Frantz" hints that it will reveal itself as a homoerotic reworking of "Broken Lullaby." But Ozon has something simpler and no less intriguing up his sleeve"

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

"[Ozon's] story is one that's subtler and digs deeper while it keeps exploring how both political and personal questions are dealt with within a moral framework and how that framework itself is also open to interpretation."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

Frantz | Details

Award winner
Winner of the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actress (Beer), 2016 Venice Film Festival.
Rating
PG, Mild themes and violence
Runtime
113
Genre
Drama, War
Country of origin
France, Germany