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Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2007) - Explicit ambiguity: Sexual identity, Hitchcockian criticism, and the films of François Ozon

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  • article: Explicit ambiguity: Sexual identity, Hitchcockian criticism, and the films of François Ozon
  • author(s): M. Hain
  • journal: Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2007)
  • issue: volume 24, issue 3, pages 277-288
  • DOI: 10.1080/10509200500486387
  • journal ISSN: 1050-9208
  • keywords: Comparative studies, Cultural values, Film, Gender identity, Identity, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers, Sexuality

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Abstract

Considering that his films have been criticized for their overly reflexive nature, something between a cinephile's loving homage and a postmodernist pastiche, it's of some surprise, particularly considering the relatively conservative nature of contemporary French film criticism, that the young director François Ozon has largely shed his label of enfant terrible and has been hailed as an up and coming auteur. But in looking over Ozon's still small filmography, the question of auteurship is once again raised - can a filmmaker whose work is so disparate in style and tone really be called an auteur? And furthermore, does the grandiose and rather nostalgic term carry much meaning for a filmmaker like Ozon?