This is the first full-length study of the films of François Ozon,
director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les
amants criminels. Andrew Asibong's passionate and critical analysis
focuses on the extent to which Ozon's seemingly light touch never ceases
to engage with the fundamentally weighty issue of existential
transformation, a transformation that affects of both his protagonists
and his audiences. A central question emerges: what is at stake,
cinematically, ethically and politically, in Ozon's alternatively
utopian and cynical flirtation with the construction and deconstruction
of contemporary social relations. Revealing Ozon as a highly adept 'fan'
of a whole range of thought, literature and cinema, Asibong places the
precocious French auteur in an intellectual yet highly accessible
critical framework, allowing Ozon's importance for a thoroughly
postmodern filmgoing generation to be given the attention it deserves.