François Ozon's new film "What Happened in the Fall" will be shown in theaters
The new film of French film director and screenwriter François Ozon "What Happened in Autumn" cinemas will show on January 23. "Izvestia" watched the movie before its release.
The movie, which begins as a family melodrama, turns out to be a detective, but the spectacular denouement of the director prefers something else. The plot of "What Happened in the Fall" is not easy to retell, because at every step here is an unexpected turn, which is not worth revealing. The only spoiler that we will allow ourselves: two retired neighbors Michelle and Marie-Claude, who are the main characters of the picture, have their own skeletons in the closet.
In "What Happened in the Fall" not only the key event, but also the surrounding circumstances, down to the smallest, are shown in such a way that it is not clear until the end what really happened. The viewer clings to the facts (or what the characters pretend to be facts), tries to analyze them, but comes to a dead end. In the end, however, he realizes that, in fact, none of this really matters. Every character is morally flawed, including the youngest. Ozon is far from the idea that children are innocent creatures.
In this work, Ozon shows himself to be a master of psychological cinema. But his drama is not one where everything is ultimately laid out. This is quicksand, in which it is impossible to find solid ground, at least on something to lean on, but it really drags on.
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