presents FRANTZ A film by François Ozon 113 minutes | France, Germany | 2016 | PG-13 | 2.35:1 In French and German with English Subtitles Official Website: http://www.musicboxfilms.com/frantz Press Materials: http://www.musicboxfilms.com/frantz-press New York/National Press Contacts: Sophie GlucK & Associates Sophie GlucK:
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[email protected] | 312-508-5363 *THank you for not revealing Adrien’s secret* FESTIVALS & AWARDS Winner - Best Cinematography (Pascal Marti), 42nd César Awards Winner - Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actress (Paula Beer), 2016 Venice Film FestiVal Winner - Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance International NarratiVe (Paula Beer) & Best International NarratiVe, 2017 Gasparilla International Film FestiVal Official Selection - 2017 Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Spotlight Selection - 2017 Sundance Film FestiVal Official Selection - 2016 Telluride Film FestiVal Official Selection - 2016 Toronto International Film FestiVal SUMMARY Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), Frantz recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war’s “lost generation”: Anna (21 year-old Paula Beer in a breaKthrough performance), a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was Killed during trench warfare, and Adrien (Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent), a French Veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz’s graVe.