François Ozon Collection (7 Short Films) ( Regarde la mer / Action vérité / La petite mort / Une robe d'été / Scènes de lit / X2000 / Un lever de rideau ) ( See the Sea / Truth or Dare / Little Death / A Summer Dress / Bedtime Stories / X Two Thousand / A Curtain Raiser )

François Ozon Collection (7 Short Films) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Regarde la mer / Action vérité / La petite mort / Une robe d'été / Scènes de lit / X2000 / Un lever de rideau
Alternate Title: See the Sea / Truth or Dare / Little Death / A Summer Dress / Bedtime Stories / X Two Thousand / A Curtain Raiser
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
152 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1994 - 2006 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
François Ozon

Written By:
François Ozon
Didier Blasco
Henry de Montherlant

Actors:
Sasha Hails ..... Sasha
Marina de Van ..... Tatiana
Samantha ..... Sioffra, The Baby
Paul Raoux ..... Sasha's Husband
Farida Rahmatoullah ..... Hélène
Aylin Argun ..... Rose
Fabien Billet ..... Remy
Adrien Pastor ..... Paul
François Delaive ..... Paul
Camille Japy ..... Camille
Martial Jacques ..... Martial
Michel Beaujard ..... Le père
Sébastien Charles ..... Sébastien
Frédéric Mangenot ..... Luc
Lucia Sanchez ..... Lucia
Valérie Druguet ..... The prostitute in 'Black Hole'
François Delaive ..... Her john in 'Black Hole'
Camille Japy ..... The woman in 'Mr. Clean'
Philippe Dajoux ..... Mr. Clean in 'Mr. Clean'
Evelyne Ker ..... The woman in 'Madame'
Loïc Even ..... The youth in 'Madame'
Lucia Sanchez ..... The woman in 'Heads of Tails'
François Genty ..... The man in 'Heads or Tails'
Pascale Arbillot ..... The blond in 'Ideal Man'
Régine Mondion ..... The dark-haired woman in 'Ideal Man'
Margot Abascal ..... Virginie in 'Love in the Dark'
Bruno Slagmulder ..... Frank in 'Love in the Dark'
Sébastien Charles ..... The gay lover in 'The Virgins'
Jérémie Elkaïm ..... Paul in 'The Virgins'
Denise Aron-Schropfer ..... The woman
Bruno Slagmulder ..... The man
Lucia Sanchez ..... A lover
Flavien Coupeau ..... A lover
Lionel Le Guevellou ..... A twin
Olivier Le Guevellou ..... A twin
Louis Garrel ..... Bruno
Vahina Giocante ..... Rosette
Mathieu Amalric ..... Pierre

Synopsis:

Regarde la mer / See the Sea (1996)
Alone with her baby daughter in a seaside cottage, Sasha agrees to let dour backpacker Tatiana pitch her tent near the house, An odd bond forms between them, underscored by a steadily amplified threat that is as sexual as it is violent.
Action vérité / Truth or Dare (1994)
Four teenagers discover the pain and excitement of their emerging sexuality while playing a harmless children's game
La Petite mort / A Little Death (1995)
Paul, a young gay photographer, is estranged from his father and lives with lover Martial. When his sister persuades him to visit his dying father in hospital, Paul discovers that he can never escape his origins
Une Robe d été / A Summer Dress (1996)
While on holiday with his boyfriend, teenaged Luc has an encounter with a stranger on the beach that complicates his already ambivalent sexuality.
Scènes de lit / Bed Scenes (1998)
A series of liberated comic sketches on sexual etiquette, unbridled passion and post-coital aftertaste.
X2000 (1998)
Three naked couples sleep, make love and wake up in an empty skyscraper littered with millennium party debris.
Un Lever de rideau / A Curtain Raiser (2006)
Bruno and his gay friend Pierre are waiting for Rosette, who is late again. This time Bruno's mind is made up: if she makes him wait more than 45 minutes, it will be over between them.

See the Sea (1997)
Sasha, a young British woman, is living with her baby daughter at Ile d'Yeu, a peaceful beach community. A stranger appears. Her name is Tatiana, she's passing through, and pitches her tent in Sasha's yard. The two women build an odd rapport, and tension builds as events unfold.
Truth or Dare (1994)
Innocence gives way to experience. Two girls and two boys, probably about 14 or 15 years old, play a game of truth or dare. The questions and the challenges deal with sex; it's innocent and harmless, but at each turn, each youth tries to raise the ante. Then, Paul gives a dare to Rose, and the result brings on a sudden and complete silence.
Little Death (1995)
Family ties. Paul is an artist, his current project is to take photos of the faces of men during orgasm. He lives with Martial, his lover. His sister Camille, who's running the family business, takes Paul to the hospital to see their father, who is dying. Paul hasn't seen him in six years, and all his life has believed his father thinks he's ugly and perhaps not even his child. There's no deathbed reconciliation, but subsequent exchanges of Paul with Martial and with Camille bring opportunities for growth and change to this temperamental and self-pitying young man.
A Summer Dress (1996)
It's summer. Sébastien loves the singer Sheila. Lucia loves boys. And all Luc wants is to get a nice tan…
Bedtime Stories (1998)
Seven brief scenes, each with a couple, explore the surprises and the changes of heart that can occur during sexual encounters. Only one of the seven couples has been in bed together before; several are strangers or new acquaintances. A prostitute and her john, an older woman and a youth who follows her home, two women friends, a gay man with a straight man, a man with distinctive ideas about soap and water, a woman who wants the light left on, and a Spanish-speaking woman with a French-speaking man make for an array of possibilities and unanticipated consequences.
X2000 (1998)
A man groggily awakes from an apparently wild New Year's Eve party to find both slumbering partiers and unexpected activity.
A Curtain Raiser (2006)
A young Frenchman is determined to dump his girlfriend due to her invariable excessive tardiness.

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