Search: Directed by Francois Ozon

Ozon's quirky French murder mystery-cum-comedy-cum-musical is a brilliant pastiche on so many genres, it has no right to be as entertaining as it is, or as gripping.

Lucy Russell in particular puts in a fascinating and nuanced performance.

Ozon does not smooth over the rough edges and the icy roads stay icy.

A sugary delight with a delightfully bitter aftertaste.

Although difficult to watch at times, the film contains a distinct energy that is both erotic and fearful.

François Ozon makes what could have been an impossibly painful subject more palatable but nonetheless affecting.

Frequently and not at all randomly, the film switches to colour, posing a charming riddle that reflects states of happiness or other kinds of intensity.

Ozon loves to let his audience's perceptions clash.

If there is rather more surface than substance and the ending is signposted, it is a surface full of intricacy and a signpost of admirable elegance.

Sexuality, Francois Ozon's latest film declares, can be as complex as desiring another person can be simple.

Martyrdom and bad wishing, casual cruelty and sweet despair reign in this realm.

Ozon uses the building blocks of the comic tradition to tell a much more empowering tale that plays genuine tribute to a rounded female character.

Emotions run like torrents through François Ozon's Le Refuge, despite the apparent simplicity of the surface narrative.

Although Ozon never quite makes his mind up about the tone of the piece, the weird juxtaposition of the normal and abnormal is mostly effective.

Ozon remains faithful to the source and keeps its sense of mystery but has strengthened the female characters

If looks could kill, the audience would be dead.

Time To Leave is at times laboured, but it is an intelligent film.

A study in grief, using magic realism, seems metaphorically top heavy.

Ozon punctuates the film with some carefully studied compositions.

The delight of the drama stems from the well crafted characters, while its heft hinges on toxicity that may not be immediately obvious.

Keeps holding out a promise of insight into its young protagonist's mentality and makeup, but ends up merely observing her from a cool distance, as if through the binoculars from the opening scene.