5x2 (2004)

Recommended

France

Feature Film

Director: François Ozon

Writers: François Ozon, Emmanuèle Bernheim

Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux

Composer: Philippe Rombi

Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Stéphane Freiss, Françoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale, Géraldine Pailhas, Antoine Chappey, Marc Ruchmann, Jason Tavassoli

With excellent performances from Bruni-Tedeschi and Freiss, 5x2 soberly presents five episodes from a failed marriage in reverse chronological order, from divorce to the first stages of courtship, contending that sexual coupling is more reliant upon basic human instinct than on love and feeling. Iain.Stott