French filmmaker and screenwriter Ozon Francois: biography, filmography and personal life

A well-known film director, actor and producer Ozon Francois earned the fame of a man who poses sharp, with a considerable amount of humor and moralism to the audience for reasoning. His paintings became a symbol of freethinking. Thanks to this Francois received international recognition at the age of 30 years.

general information

Ozon Francois was born on November 15, 1967. By the sign of the Zodiac - Scorpio. A future director appeared in one of the most beautiful cities in Europe - in Paris. Nature endowed him with dark hair and brown eyes. The skin has a swarthy tinge. Ozone growth is 175 cm.

He is not only a professional film director and actor, but also a producer, cameraman, editor, screenwriter. The main genres in which Francois works are:

• comedy;
• Short film;
• drama.

Famous screenwriter Francois Ozon, whose films are often perceived ambiguously, does not hide his unconventional sexual orientation.

Biography

From an early age, Francois loved movies. He wanted to understand how the movie is made. The future director was born in the family of a professor of biology (father - Rene Ozon) and a teacher of French (mother - Anna-Marie). Interest in cinematography in him was prompted by the shooting of advertising, in which he participated as a model. The first cinematographic school for the future director was the well-known school "La Femi" in the Sorbonne. Here he met with great teachers, and also began to create his own style.

After the release, in 1990, Francois Ozon, whose films already acquired a peculiar style, entered the famous film school film school La FEMIS. After 5 years he shoots the short film "Little Death". His next works were "Summer Dress" and "Look at the Sea". In Russia they are published in a collection called "Narcissus at the edge of summer". Francois's teachers were Luis Bunuel, Alain Rene, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Francois filmed films, starting with 8-, 16- and 35-mm films. Then he switched to video.

Not so long ago, in 2014, Francois visited Russia. He went with the rent of his films in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Francois Ozon: Filmography

The first serious works of Francois were short films. He started shooting them in 1995, at the age of 28. In this period, the individual style of the director is clearly manifested. In the same year, François made a documentary about Lionel Jospin (Prime Minister of France since 1997). By 1996, the work of Francois Ozon Une robe d'ete was published. For her, the director received the prize "Leopard of the Future".

A series of full-length works begins with the film "The Little Redridge", released in 1998. It reveals the vicious nature of a person walking on the occasion of natural instincts suppressed by society. Ozon Francois is a screenwriter and director of this picture. The film was recognized by film critics at the Cannes Film Festival.

Another of his famous film - "Raindrops on the scorching stones" - was introduced to the audience in 2000. He was the result of work on the script Fasbinder. He was warmly greeted by European film critics. The film received a special prize from Teddy at the Berlin Film Festival.

In the same year, the director finishes work on the tape "Under the sand". For it, he receives the Cesar award. The picture tells of an elderly couple who lives their last days together.

Outside of France Ozone became famous for the detective thriller "8 women". In the film he collected the best actresses of French cinema:

• Catherine Deneuve.
• Fanny Ardan.
• Isabelle Huppert.
• Emmanuelle Bear.

Hollywood scenography combined with a detective story and well-chosen musical numbers brought the picture commercial success. For the best acting at the Berlin Film Festival, she was awarded the Silver Bear Prize.

From 2003 to 2007, Ozon Francois produced four paintings that had international success:

1. "Pool" - with Charlotte Remping and Lubovin Sanya in the lead roles. He became the first film that was filmed in English.
2. "5 X 2" - describes the five stages of the destruction of marriage.
3. "Farewell Time" is a story about the life of a photographer who learns that he has cancer.
4. "Angel" - Francois Ozon tried to portray in this film an ambitious writer who survived many tragic events in her life.

In 2010, the premiere of the eccentric comedy "Desperate Housewife" with Catherine Deneuve in the title role. In 2014, the work on the painting was completed, which says that "everything is complicated in life", says Francois Ozon himself. "Girlfriend" - the name of the melodrama, which became a reference to a large number of works by filmmakers of the past.

Criticism

The works of François critics are met more often positively than skeptical. After all, he is considered a living classic of French cinema. Criticism of François's films can be reduced to revealing obsolete ideas and bourgeois everyday life. However, it will never be a reproach in vulgarity and immorality. The sophisticated spectator can easily understand what François Ozon put in his tapes: the filmography of the director is such that the spectator has a feeling of peeping at the main characters.

Personal life

To all questions of journalists about his personal life, Francois does not answer, he keeps silent. He is more interested in the people he shoots, the characters of his films. According to the director, love is different, and it is not always connected with sexual desire. In any case, if Ozone Francois has a personal life, he prefers her career.

Interesting Facts

In the very first short film Francois starred in his parents and brother. According to the scenario, the boy kills his father and mother. As the director himself says, in the process of filming his paintings, he tries to understand what love is. According to him, marriage is only a conditionality, which makes people even more alone. For the opportunity to create films Francois neglected his personal life.

Almost every work of the film director has a hero with a non-traditional sexual orientation. There is an opinion that this is due to the homosexuality of the director himself. However, in an interview Ozon Francois said: "I hope the viewer will be smart enough not to perceive my films as moral or immoral."

Ozone Francois's films are not only successful experiments, but also passionate attempts to understand people: their feelings, desires, nature. Each picture can evoke vivid emotions, make you think about the mysteries of the human soul and begin to look for the traits of the main characters.