The opening title card of François Ozon’s 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that period — a sneaky-smart way of nodding to one of this pastel-colored ...

I FOUND IT hard to believe that Francois Ozon, who directed the deliciously enigmatic “Swimming Pool” and the hilarious musical mystery “8 Women,” made “Potiche.” While it has its humorous moments ...

Like Snow White in a red track suit jogging through the forest while communing with a succession of animals (a deer, a squirrel, copulating rabbits), Suzanne Pujol (Catherine Deneuve) is a woman who ...

Potiche by Barillet and Grédy opens at Théâtre Libre from February 12 to April 30, 2026, starring Clémentine Célarié ...

A French farce from the late '70s about feminism, chauvinism, adultery and family alliances sounds like an entertaining romp. But one that is made with 21st-century sensibilities takes on a tone that ...

François Ozon likes to surprise audiences but his latest film, "Potiche" (opened April 15 at Landmark's La Jolla Village Theaters) returns to the tone and style of his "8 Women." François Ozon has ...

Potiche (roughly translated: Trophy Wife) made the festival rounds late last year prior to an international release concentrated in the European Union. To promote the March 25 domestic release, Music ...

Catherine Deneuve has a formidable mask, and not only onscreen. I'd seen her in person only once before, at a party at the Venice Film Festival, and you would no more want to impose on her privacy in ...

Take a trip down nostalgia lane and find yourself transported back to the outlandish comedy and garish colours of 1970s France with today's Blu-ray release of Potiche (Trophy Wife). Read on for our ...

Director Francois Ozon shows a meticulous attention to period detail in his 1977-set French comedy "Potiche" -- from the kitschy titles to the sunshine-yellow countertops to Judith Godreche's ...

He handles his workers as well as he handles his family, and it’s little surprise when they strike and take him hostage. With the help of Robert’s sworn enemy and Suzanne’s ex-lover, left-wing union ...

It takes a sly director – and François Ozon is nothing if not sly – to stick an icon of French movie glamour in a bright-red 1970s jumpsuit and have her jog, coo at woodland creatures, and comport ...