François Ozon
b. November 15, 1967, Paris, France
Defining films
In their own words
It was a way for me to pay tribute to melodrama, a genre I love. The Red Shoes (1948) by Powell and Pressburger, and the films of Douglas Sirk and Vincente Minnelli were very much in my mind.
Ozon cites directors as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window [1954]), Claude Chabrol (La Cérémonie [1995]) and Michael Haneke (Caché [2005]) as important cinematic touchstones.
I wanted to stay in this genre and keep this suspense that you find in Hitchcock or Buñuel, and in French cinema in Chabrol. It's really psychological horror, a thriller where you don't know if the character is mad or not.
Ozon cites directors as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window), Claude Chabrol (La Cérémonie) and Michael Haneke (Caché) as important cinematic touchstones.
Films by decade
