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The French director François Ozon is back at the Festival with When fall is coming, a subtle study of the toxic nature of family relations that tells the story of two elderly women and their children who cannot come to terms with their mothers’ past as prostitutes.
Ozon appeared before the press yesterday alongside the actors Pierre Lotin, Josiane Balasko, Hélène Vincent and Ludivine Sagnier, and explained that “sometimes you make mistakes in your life because you misinterpret a situation and it’s only 10 years later that you realise you were wrong. Sometimes you decide not to know. You prefer to sweep things under the carpet.”
The French filmmaker also once again addressed the subject of grief, something that he had already dealt with in Under the sand which he presented at the Festival 20 years ago: “I’m interested in how we are able to bear the disappearance of our loved ones.”
Ozon, whose “autumnal” film was screened on the very day that this season began, stressed that he wanted to challenge stereotypes around elderly female characters “who are under-explored in cinema and I wanted to have them at the centre of things. It was important to make a film with the leads as old actresses, because too often they are just a caricature.”
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