Men.style.com (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
With a photo show featuring skinny-dippers, Deanna Templeton offers a way to take your mind off politics this weekend. (Hey, whatever works.)
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Deanna Templeton offers Angelenos a way to take their minds off politics this weekend with a photo show featuring skinny-dippers. (Hey, whatever works.) The exhibit's title: The Swimming Pool, naturally, but whether that's a François Ozon reference, we'll leave for...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
JAR CITY (15) DIRECTED BY: BALTASAR KORMÁKUR STARRING: INGVAR EGGERT SIGURÖSSON, ÁGÚSTA EVA ERLENDSDÓTTIR
The Herald (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The source material for this rather feckless period piece directed by Frenchman Francois Ozon (in English) is a 1957 novel by British author Elizabeth Taylor.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Francois Ozon's adaptation of the Elizabeth Taylor novel about the rise and fall of an eccentric young writer in the early 20th century
Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Ludivine Sagnier first made waves Stateside with her revealing performance in François Ozon’s subtle 2003 thriller Swimming Pool . Although she'd already demonstrated her versatility in a number of films, including Ozon’s own 8 Women (2002), Pool made her a superstar — and suddenly the actress was seen as an international screen sex siren. So it may come as a surprise to some viewers to see Sagnier’s...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Two period dramas rich in detail, but not so good at characterisation The Duchess (12A) dir: Saul Dibb Angel (15) dir: François Ozon The fall of the house of Merchant/Ivory occurred in the mid-1990s, when the producer-director duo, prized as ambassadors of British costume drama, slid from favour and the country turned instead to Richard Curtis for its fix of toffs in tails. In recent years, the heritage...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Film of the week: François Ozon's take on the English romantic fiction of Elizabeth Taylor is funny, stylish, beguiling and, through a great central performance, touching
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
In Angel, director François Ozon (Under The Skin, Swimming Pool) does no favours to rising British stars Romola Garai (Atonement) and Michael Fassbender, soon to play Heathcliff in a new Wuthering Heights.In this preposterous period melodrama these talented actors give embarrassing performances under the Frenchman’s direction, with Garai wildly over the top and an uncomfortable Fassbender frozen stiff...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Angel is director Francois Ozon's sumptuous adaptation of Elizabeth Taylor's much-loved novel - a rags-to-riches Edwardian melodrama about a fame-hungry novelist, played by Romola Garai. To celebrate its…
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
SOME of French director Francois Ozon's previous work, notably Eight Women, has been, shall we say, not entirely averse to flirting with camp.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
ReelNews »Hunger's Fassbender on fast track to stardomMichael Dwyer on filmBusy Irish actor Michael Fassbender looks set to join the cast of Inglorious Bastards , Quentin Tarantino's war movie set in Nazi-occupied France. Brad Pitt stars in the film, which also features Mike Myers, Hostel directors El Roth (who was in Tarantino's Death Proof ), BJ Novak (from the US TV version of The Office ) and,...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
If there was one Elizabeth Taylor whose work you imagine being devoured by François Ozon, it'd surely be the Hollywood icon, not the underrated novelist. Ozon's latest, Angel (15), provides the latest twist in this film-maker's uneven but always surprising career: an English-language adaptation of Taylor's tremendously sly 1957 novel concerning a writer of terrible romantic fiction.Playful and piquant:...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
The French director François Ozon has taken Elizabeth Taylor's beadily satiric novel and transformed it into a droll and somewhat disturbing fantasia on the creative temperament.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
A poor but ambitious girl sets out to become a famous writer in this François Ozon drama starring Romola Garai. Rating:3
