TIFF 2016 Movie Review: FRANTZ (France/Germany 2916) ***1/2

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FRANTZ (France/Germany 2916) ***1/2
Directed by Francois Ozon

Starring: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner

Review by Gilbert Seah

What would be TIFF be without another film from French director Francois Ozon who has a new film very festival?

FRANTZ is Ozon’s elegiac tale of love and remembrance set in a small German town in the aftermath of World War I, where a young woman mourning the death of her fiancé forms a bond with a mysterious Frenchman who has arrived to lay flowers on her beloved’s grave. Anna was engaged to Frantz, who was killed, and the people in her German home town are just beginning to emerge from the shadow of horrendous conflict.

Frantz’s parents are shattered…

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