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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.
















January1993

12 May 1959, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic


11 June 1955, Wuppertal, Germany





1949, Germany



24 June 1949, Gilley, Doubs, France


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
"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.
May 17, 2017
As the film takes on the tone of a Hitchcockian detective story, the micro and macro themes converge compellingly.
May 19, 2017
Ozon has achieved emotional depths that are rather new for him.
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 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 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
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.
April 07, 2017
A fine bilingual cast, haunting period detail and a provocative approach to a twisting story carry the day.
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.
June 13, 2017
It's one of the most beguilingly beautiful and heart-tugging films of the year so far.