The director on waiting 35 years to film the perfect gay love story, and how French cinema is coping with CovidFrench writer-director François Ozon, 52, is famous for his prodigious output.
He directed his first full-length feature, Sitcom, in 1998, and his 19th, Summer of 85, a love story about two teenage boys in a Normandy seaside town, is out in the UK this month.
In between, his diverse output includes the musical 8 Women, the retro comedy Potiche, the Ruth Rendell adaptation The New Girlfriend and last year’s By the Grace of God.What were you doing in the summer of ’85?What was I doing? I think I went to Spain with a friend – I can’t remember exactly, I’d have to ask my parents.
The film was going to be called Summer of 84.
I changed the title because of Robert Smith of the Cure.
I absolutely wanted to use their song In Between Days,
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