Francois Ozon, In the House

France’s precocious talent is now 45 and continues to mine suspense, sex, humor and psychology with his latest, the critically successful and popular French language In the House. Ozon talks about being dubbed “the French Hitchcock,” again casting Fabrice Luchini after he supported Catherine Deneuve in Ozon’s 2010 comedy Potiche, what it took to find House's teenaged protagonist and why casting Roman Polanski’s actress wife Emmanuelle Seigner as a sexy housewife is not meant as an in-joke.

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