François Ozon’s “Frantz” is a very modern period piece—and a beautiful one—with a fascinating lineage. The period is post-World War I—1919, to be exact, immediately after the war to ...

French filmmaker François Ozon’s “Frantz,” a carefully calibrated meditation on loss and reconciliation, is built around a pivotal lie. The fact that the new drama is a remake, of sorts, of ...

Though there are a lot of firsts here for Ozon, with much of Frantz in German and in 35mm black and white, this drama continues the director’s penchant for spinning thematically complex material ...

In the opening moments of “Frantz,” the latest intricately layered mystery from the French writer-director François Ozon, a German woman named Anna (Paula Beer) visits the grave of her ...

French writer-director Francois Ozon adapts Broken Lullaby, Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 melodrama about a mysterious Frenchman and a German war-widow in the aftermath of World War I.

'Frantz' turns a WWI-era mystery into a treatise on modern nationalism and Trump-era xenophobia – Peter Travers on why this French film is a must-see.

There is exactly one great sequence in “Frantz,” the latest film from modern master François Ozon (“The New Girlfriend,” “8 Women”), and even though it’s a short scene, it creates ...