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Frantz
2016 1h 53m PG-13
Drama
,
History
,
and more
7.5
91%
85%
74%
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In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
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Directed By
François Ozon
Written By
Philippe Piazzo
Studio
FOZ
,
Mars Distribution
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and more
Cast of Frantz
Pierre Niney
Adrien Rivoire
Paula Beer
Anna
Ernst Stötzner
Doctor Hans Hoffmeister
Marie Gruber
Magda Hoffmeister
Johann von Bülow
Kreutz
Anton von Lucke
Frantz Hoffmeister
Cyrielle Clair
Adrien's Mother
Alice de Lencquesaing
Fanny
Axel Wandtke
Hotel Receptionist
Rainer Egger
German Cemetery Caretaker
Johannes Silberschneider
Shopkeeper selling the dress
Merlin Rose
Young Drunk
Ralf Dittrich
Adolf
Michael Witte
Gustav
Lutz Blochberger
Man by Lake
Jeanne Ferron
Aunt Rivoire
Torsten Michaelis
Priest
Nicolas Bonnefoy
Customs Officer
Étienne Ménard
Taxi Driver
Claire Martin
Hotel Manager
Camille Grandville
Concierge
Jean-Paul Dubois
Opera Cashier
Armand Faussat
Old Man at the Castle
Benoît Marin
Musician
Richard Boudarham
Conductor
Jean-Pol Brissart
Doctor
Zimsky
Cemetery Caretaker at Passy
Isabelle Mesbah
Servant to Mrs. Rivoire
Véronique Boutroux
Félicie
Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat
Abbot
Louis-Charles Sirjacq
Mayor
Élizabeth Mazev
Mayor's Wife
Eliott Margueron
Young Man in the Louvre
Laurent Borel
Injured Soldier
Frantz Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
"Frantz" contains revelations unrelated to the manner in which it protects, and then peels away, its central mystery. Ultimately, it addresses the question: Why go on living when life itself betrays us?
Detroit News
Tom Long
"Frantz" offers a sympathetic, if dark, look at the awful wake of war, at the cost of institutional violence, as well as the cost of surviving.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
"Frantz," a moving film set in post-World War I Europe, looks at truth and lies and the necessity for both in a grieving world that makes no sense.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
The perhaps too-beautifully manicured black-and-white 'Scope cinematography and Paula Beer's bravura turn as the German girl who got left behind make it worth your while.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
"Frantz" is pleasurable slow going, developing its themes at an amble but with a measure of suspense, sympathy toward its characters, and a lasting faith in filmmaking craft.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Kupecki
Using this moment in history, Ozon has made a quietly powerful film whose ultimate message is one of rebirth. The final shot will leave you breathless.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
By the time it comes to an end, Frantz has made a permanent imprint, the hope for a better tomorrow after a cataclysmic yesterday striking chords of promise that make even the harshest of injuries feel as if they someday can be healed.
Newsweek
Leo Robson
Ozon wants to add another layer of perspective, to place Frantz's death in yet another context. Instead, the film's second half makes the first look strategic-a means to an end-serving less to countervail or complement than to cancel it out.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
While it is far from Ozon's worst movie, it is perhaps the first one he's made that feels like it could be the work of any other director.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
François Ozon's Frantz is a very modern period piece -- and a beautiful one -- with a fascinating lineage.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
The deepening ties between Anna and Adrien have the same kind of dull, matte gloss of the black-and-white cinematography - monochrome that occasionally segues to color, an ill-conceived gambit occasioned by flashbacks and fleeting moments of joy.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Ozon creates a beautiful stillness in Frantz that makes us feel we are there in the midst of these lives, witnessing the purity of their sadness.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
A young woman's emergence is a recurrent Ozon theme, and Beers embodies the transformation luminously, if not so flashily as some of the director's Gallic leading ladies.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
One could easily imagine this film being rendered in a high romantic style, but Ozon's austerity gives the story an almost classical rigor. The drama plays out in measured syncopation, with no scene or moment held too long.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
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.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
This sublime mature work by François Ozon borrows liberally from Ernst Lubitsch's Broken Lullaby (1932) but supplants its fevered melodrama with erotically charged mystery.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
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.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
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.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
"Frantz" is an old-fashioned movie, in the very best of ways.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Beer and Niney do solid work, but their sensitive efforts can't quite breathe life into a story that no longer seems terribly relevant.
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