Frantz

Frantz is set in a small German town shortly after the First World War. Anna visits the grave of her fiancé Frantz every day; he died while fighting in France. One day she finds a young Frenchman, Adrien, also laying flowers on the grave. His presence in a town worn down by defeat provokes strong and unpredictable reactions, and his meeting with Anna unsettles both their lives.

François Ozon directed and co-wrote the film with Philippe Piazzo. It was Ozon's twelfth feature in a career that by then included Young & Beautiful, and it was followed in 2017 by Double Lover. Paula Beer plays Anna and Pierre Niney plays Adrien; the cast, numbering thirty-four credited performers, also includes Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Johann von Bülow and Anton von Lucke as Frantz.

The production was a German-French effort from X Filme Creative Pool, Mandarin Cinéma, FOZ and Mars Distribution, with Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott and Eric Altmayer producing, and it runs 113 minutes. Its worldwide box office of about 7 million dollars points to a modest art-house release rather than a broad commercial one. Audiences rate it 7.5/10 on IMDb from some 19,000 votes and 7.3/10 on TMDB from roughly 760 votes, while a critics' rating of 7.4/10 across 138 reviews places it near the level of those audience scores.