After a career filled with surrealist audacity, Ozon settles for wise contemplation -- a new understated classicism that’s as erotic and startling as his familiar impudence.

| Apr 15, 2025

Almost perfectly balanced between Douglas Sirk-style melodrama, near-subliminal humor, and out-and-out camp. In short, Ozon is getting close to prime Almodovar territory.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2025

Rather than a story about a plunge, this a story about losing one's grip on the knowable world, the way autumn slides towards darkness and the end of things.

| Apr 8, 2025

Seasoned performers bring emotional depth to this twisty and stylish thriller.

| Apr 5, 2025

That it is still worthwhile owes largely to the sympathetic, sinuous performance of Hélène Vincent, in the lead role of a grand-mère who may not be as simply sweet as she first appears.

| Apr 4, 2025

François Ozon’s dramatic thriller “When Fall is Coming” is deceptively calm and restrained for all the mystery that arises.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2025

The ending is a bit abrupt, but beyond that sudden finish this meditation on aging, parental love and parental control offers a twisty, engaging and dramatic ride. As a bonus, the location, in France’s Burgundy region, is gorgeous.

| Apr 4, 2025

It is a story of love, in all its rich simplicity but also in putting us in the difficult position to understand it on a level that transcends ... the most obvious of sins.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2025

François Ozon’s crackling autumnal thriller gives Hélène Vincent a well-deserved spotlight in this accomplished thriller.

| Original Score: B | Apr 4, 2025

With an all-around excellent cast, prolific French director François Ozon has crafted an intriguing puzzler in WHEN FALL IS COMING.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 3, 2025

A sleek, modestly scaled entertainment about families, secrets and obligations, it features fine performances and some picture-postcard Burgundian locations.

| Apr 3, 2025

An understated psychological crime drama and a poignant character study.

| Apr 2, 2025

In a strong ensemble cast, Vincent gives a superb performance, imbuing her octogenarian protagonist with a refreshing complexity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2025

The film is a bit too muddled to bring its main character fully into focus, despite Hélène Vincent’s best efforts to do so.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 30, 2025

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2025

In the great Ozon catalogue, this is an incidental work... [yet] fascinating and the more you think about it, the more there is to think about.

| Mar 27, 2025

To say any more risks ruining the many twisty pleasures to be found in this exquisitely acted, slow-burning drama, not least Vincent’s gently sinister performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2025

Vincent is perfectly engaging in the central role, and suitably ambiguous, but the characters around her are wafer-thin, their performances thinner, and nothing ever fully ignites.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2025

The film has all the teasing and overturning of expectations that you have come to expect from Ozon, together with an element of gayness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2025

This spry little French-language picture... shows the director at his most understated, the better to foreground the excellent, intriguingly layered performance from Hélène Vincent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2025