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Frantz
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.
1960
24 June 1949, Gilley, Doubs, France
26 September 1972, Munich, Germany
13 December 1958, Mautern, Styria, Austria
January1993
31 January 1961, Berlin, German Democratic Republic
1 December 1955, Paris, France
February1995, Berlin, Germany
May 30, 2017
The plot itself is interesting, but what makes it even more so is that it pivots on the idea that human beings have the power to accept facts and interpret truth.May 18, 2017
While not quite the masterpiece that it intends to be, Frantz still stands as one of the most touching romances this year so far.April 07, 2017
A fine bilingual cast, haunting period detail and a provocative approach to a twisting story carry the day.June 13, 2017
It's one of the most beguilingly beautiful and heart-tugging films of the year so far.May 17, 2017
As the film takes on the tone of a Hitchcockian detective story, the micro and macro themes converge compellingly.May 04, 2017
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.May 19, 2017
Ozon has achieved emotional depths that are rather new for him.June 14, 2017
A splendid cast work through the complications and stages of grief to provide a scathingly anti-nationalist warning from history.April 07, 2017
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.June 02, 2017
"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.April 07, 2017
"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.