
In 1919 Quedlinburg, Germany, a young woman named Anna is still mourning the death of her fiance, Frantz Hoffmeister, in the Great War while living with his equally devastated parents. One day, a mysterious Frenchman, Adrien Rivoire, comes to town both to pay his respects to Frantz's grave and to contact that soldier's parents. Although it is difficult for both sides with the bitterness of Germany's defeat, Adrian explains that he knew Frantz and gradually he wins Anna and th... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1919 Quedlinburg, Germany, a young woman named Anna is still mourning the death of her fiance, Frantz Hoffmeister, in the Great War while living with his equally devastated parents. One day, a mysterious Frenchman, Adrien Rivoire, comes to town both to pay his respects to Frantz's grave and to contact that soldier's parents. Although it is difficult for both sides with the bitterness of Germany's defeat, Adrian explains that he knew Frantz and gradually he wins Anna and the Hoffmeisters' hearts as he tries to connect with them. Unfortunately, Adrien and Anna discover the truth of his motives and things seem shattered for all. However, when Adrien leaves, Anna has her own struggles with the truth and her feelings until she sets out to find Adrien in France. With that, Anna has her own journey to make in more than one sense, even as they both realize that neither have easy answers to their complex personal conflicts with each other and the dead man linking them.
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| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersBy the time it comes to an end, Frantz has made a permanent imprint, the hope for a better tomorrow after a cataclysmic yesterday striking chords of promise that make even the harshest of injuries feel as if they someday can be healed. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFor a film that moves at a deliberate pace, Frantz grows remarkably involving; Mr. Ozon is a formidable storyteller, as he has previously demonstrated in such films as “Under the Sand” and “Swimming Pool.” |
| Cinema ScopeTommaso TocciFrantz deftly escapes the traps of its own limited premise by creating a mirror version of itself, like many of its own characters do. |
| Huffington PostBrandon JudellFew other directors have the ability to depict the psychosexual permutations of our fellow man better, at times accompanied with an unexpected Hitchcockian twist or a good dose of Almodóvarian tongue-in-cheek perversity. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe sources of this happiness become far more complex when Adrien’s revelation is imparted (only to Anna). At this point the movie’s moral compass spins. |
| Film ExperienceNathaniel RogersThe movie has a terrifically simple plot generating event which reaps bountiful plot threads and emotions. |
| Screen InternationalJonathan RomneyFrantz is arguably one of the straightest films Ozon has made – in both the dramatic and the sexual senses – but his complex sensibilities and fine-tuned irony are very evident in a mature work that transcends genre pastiche to be intellectually stimulating and emotionally satisfying. |
| AV ClubMike D'AngeloBeer and Niney do solid work, but their sensitive efforts can’t quite breathe life into a story that no longer seems terribly relevant. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldIt’s a simple, moving story about love, loss and storytelling itself. |
| The Patriot LedgerAl AlexanderIt's purely happenstance that Francois Ozon's "Frantz" is so timely in this era of Steve Bannon's America. But if the film fits, see it. And then decide if nationalism is all it's cut out to be. |