2016 · drama · romance
Frantz (2016)
Directed by François Ozon1h 53m2016
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Our read: Frantz (2016) (2016) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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- measured
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