François Ozon must be relieved, at 43, to have just about thrown off the “gay enfant terrible of French cinema” tag he wore around his neck 10 years ago. The other things the writer-director wears around his neck, seemingly all the time, are dapper scarves. It won’t surprise viewers of his films that he relishes sartorial style: think back to the country house murder-mystery 8 Women (2002), with its lavish costume palette ranging from bubblegum-pink to leopard-print, or the contrast in his jesty Hitchcockian thriller Swimming Pool (2003) between Charlotte Rampling’s dowdy frocks and Ludivine Sagnier’s dental-floss bikini. Ozon, scarf and all, is at London’s Institut Français to talk about his new picture Potiche, a frothy, bittersweet comedy reuniting him with Catherine Deneuve for the first time since 8 Women, and seeing him back in something like that buoyant mode, after a string of low-key dramas (Time to Leave, Le Refuge) and one almost uncategorisable, English-language period oddity (Angel). [Source]