In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.
Acting
Bernard Giraudeau's predatory charm that somehow keeps you complicit.
Direction
Ozon turns one room into a pressure cooker of shifting desires.
Writing
Fassbinder's dialogue: vicious, theatrical, impossible to look away.
Director
François Ozon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ozon filmed this in strict sequence over ten days, mirroring the play's real-time structure and trapping the actors in the same claustrophobic escalation.
This was Fassbinder's first full-length play at 19, written before he became the enfant terrible of New German Cinema — Ozon essentially resurrected a teenage fever dream.
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