In the quiet aftermath of carnage, grief doesn’t simply fade; it simmers beneath the surface. The broody 2016 drama “Frantz” begins not with the roar of battle but with the fragile silence left behind, a space where secrets, sorrow, and guilt swirl like smoke.
The story is set in a battered post-World War I Europe struggling to recover. French director François Ozon’s take on Maurice Rostand’s 1925 play, “The Man I Killed” (“L’homme que j’ai tue,”) brings more than lost souls back to life. Instead, it exposes the deep emotional scars war leaves on people, not just countries.
