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François Ozon
Director

François Ozon

Country France
Born November 15, 1967

b. November 15, 1967, Paris, France

It was a way for me to pay tribute to melodrama, a genre I love. The Red Shoes (1948) by Powell and Pressburger, and the films of Douglas Sirk and Vincente Minnelli were very much in my mind.

On Angel  ·  Cineaste Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 1, 'Angel of the Future: An Interview with François Ozon by Dennis West'