François Ozon charts the course of a relationship from finish to start — Ozon charts the course of a relationship from finish to start — from final divorce to first ignition — in five stages. The reverse-chronology narrative has been tried a few times before, in such dissimilar forms as Betrayal, Memento, and Irreversible, and no one has a patent on it. Ozon makes use of it to tell a common story, a universal story, even more so than that of Betrayal, the closest antecedent. He doesn't get bogged down in the details of what went wrong, or why, but he is, as our Buddhist friends might say, very present in the moment — fully alert to the people, the place, the event. And the lovely, long-faced, in both the horsey sense and the pensive sense, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi is an actress of dizzying depth. Stéphane Freiss, Géraldine, Françoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale. (2005) — Duncan Shepherd
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