Synopsis:
Sarah (Charlotte Rampling) is a rigid and conservative, yet successful English mystery writer. Sarah's personal life and new novel take a dramatic twist when she meets her publisher's sexy, free-spirited daughter Julie (Ludivine Sagnier).

French release: 21 May 2003
Director: François Ozon
Written by: François Ozon and Emmanuèle Berheim.
Cast:Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Marc Fayolle, Jean-Marie Lamour, Mireille Mossé, Michel Fau, Jean-Claude Lecas, Lauren Farrow

Producers: Olivier Delbosc & Marc Missonnier (Fidélité)
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Composer: Philippe Rombi
Sound: Lucien Balibar
Costumer: Pascaline Chavanne
Make-up: Gill Robillard
Hairdresser: Myriam Roger
Art Designer: Wouter Zoon
Production director: Christine de Jekel
Cast: Antoinette Boulat
Set photographer: Max Hureau
Editor: Monica Coleman
Sound editor: Benoît Hillebrant, Jean-Pierre Laforce

Links: german website - japanese website

Synopsis:
An isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France. A family is gathered for the holiday season … But there will be no celebration – their beloved patriarch has been murdered!

French release: 6th February 2002
Director: François Ozon
Adapted and written by: François Ozon with the collaboration of Marina De Van. Adapted from the stage by Robert Thomas.
Cast:Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, Firmine Richard.
Producers: Olivier Delbosc & Marc Missonnier (Fidélité Productions)
Cinematographer: Jeanne Lapoirie
Sound: Pierre Gamet, Jean-Pierre Laforce
Casting: Antoinette Boulat
Editor: Laurence Bawedin
Composer: Krishna Lévy
Costumer: Pascalie Chavanne
Art designer: Arnaud de Moléron
Choregrapher: Sébastien Charles

Music of the french trailer: "Night of the Dead" composed by Julian Nott.
Songs heard in the film:
"Papa t'es plus dans l'coup" by Ludivine Sagnier
"Message Personnel" by Isabelle Huppert
"A quoi sert de vivre libre" by Fanny Ardant
"Mon Amour, Mon Ami" by Virginie Ledoyen
"Pour ne pas vivre seule" by Firmine Richard
"Pile ou face" by Emmanuelle Béart
"Toi jamais" by Catherine Deneuve
"Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux" by Danielle Darrieux

Links: official german website
official french website

Under The Sand (2000 / 95mn / 35mm)

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Synopsis:
For years, Marie and Jean have happily spent their vacation together in the Landes region of western France. But this summer, while Marie naps on the beach, her husband vanishes without a trace.
Did he drown? Did he run off?

French release: 7th february 2001
Director: François Ozon
Written byFrançois Ozon with Emmanuèle Bernheim, Marina De Van and Marcia Romano
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot, Alexandra Stewart, Pierre Vernier, Andrée Tainsy
Produced by Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier
Director of photography: Jeanne Lapoirie, Antoine Heberlé
Sound: Jean-Luc Audy, Benoît Hillebrant, Jean-Pierre Laforce
Casting: Antoinette Boulat
Editor: Laurence Bawedin
Composer: Philippe Rombi

Other music heard in the film:
Septembre (Quel joli temps) by Barbara © les editions Métropolitaines
Undenied by Portishead © Crysalis Music LTD
Prélude Opus 28 en si mineur - Lento assai - by Frédéric Chopin
by Philippe Rombi © 2000 Fidélité Productions
Prélude en B major - Vivace - by Frédéric Chopin
Symphonie n°2 en Do mineur - Résurrection - by Gustav Mahler

Links: The Covers of Charlotte Rampling. A book adapted from the screenplay of Under the Sand is available in french at Editions de l'Arche.

Water Drops on Burning Rocks (1999 / 90min / 35mm)

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Synopsis:
Germany in the 70's.
Léopold, in his fifties, seduces Franz, a 19 years old boy. Franz falls in love and moves to Leopold's. But one day comes a foolish thing without importance on which they cannot agree with, a kind of divergence. But from that moment, there isn't "mutual us" anymore but only divergences.

Director: François Ozon
Adaptation: François Ozon, from the stage written by Fassbinder "Tröpfen auf Heisse Steine"
Cinematographer: Jeanne Lapoirie
Sound: Eric Devulder
Editor: Laurence Bawedin
Designer: Arnaud de Mauleron
Costumes: Pascaline Chavanne
First Assistant: Hubert Barbin
Sound mixing: Jean-Pierre Laforce
Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Anna Thomson, Ludivine Sagnier
Production: Fidélité productions & les Films Alain Sarde

Music:
Traüme performed by Françoise Hardy.
Symphonie n°4 en sol majeur (Malher)
Requiem, 3. "Dies Irae" (Verdi)
Zadok the priest (Haendel)
Tanze Samba Mit Mir performed by Tony Holiday

Released on 15th March 2000.
Official Selection in Berlin Festival 2000
Water Drops on Burning Rocks has received the Teddy Bear Prize in Berlin Festival, rewarding the best gay and lesbian film of the competition

Criminal Lovers (1998 / 90min / 35mm)

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Synopsis:
In a small french provincial town, two teenagers, Luc and Alice, decide to commit a murder and assassinate a classmate, Saïd. They escape straight to bury the corpse in a forest where they meet a man leading a cloistered life...

Screenplay and director: François Ozon
Cinematographer: Pierre Stoeber
Sound: François Guillaume
Editor: Dominique Petrot
Music: Philippe Rombi
Designer: Arnaud de Mauleron
Cast: Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier, Miki Manojlovic,
Salim Kechiouche, Yasmine Belmadi
Production: Fidélité Productions

Released on 18th August 1999
Official Selection in Venise Festival 1999

Releasing their second album, the english pop group Lamb has done a collector single (produced by Mercury) with the song "Gorecki", used in the film and in the trailer of The Criminal Lovers.The cover is the poster of the film.

Sitcom (1998) 35mm, color, 80 mn

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Synopsis :
An upper-class family is going to be upset by the presence of a rat, taken back by the father. The children and the parents are going to discover each other...in the chaos.

Screenplay and director: François Ozon
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Sound: Benoît Hillebrant
Editor: Dominique Petrot
Music: Eric Neveux
Designer: Angélique Puron
Cast: Evelyne Dandry, François Marthouret, Marina et Adrien De Van, Stéphane Rideau, Lucia Sanchez, Jules-Emmanuel Eyoum Deido
Production: Fidélité productions

Released on 27th May 1998
Official Selection "Semaine Internationale de la Critique" Cannes in 1998

Awards: Best Actress for Marina De Van and Creation Prize in the festival of Namur (Belgique), Best Actress for Marina De Van in the festival of Sitges (Espagne).

See The Sea (1997) 35mm, color, 52 mn

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Synopsis:
Sasha, about thirty, is on holidays with his little daughter on the seaside. Tatiana, a strange young woman, comes to camp out in her garden. A very bizarre relationship is about to evolve between the two women...

Screenplay and director: François Ozon
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Sound: Daniel Sobrino
Music: Eric Neveux
Cast: Sasha Hails, Marina De Van
Production: Fidélité productions

Released on 3rd December 1997

Awards: Best Actress for Marina De Van and Prize given by the Press in Pantin, Official selection in Locarno, San Sebastian and New York festivals.