It seems only yesterday that we were commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Three years on, and it is now the terrible last stages of the conflict that we are invited to look back to, as we contemplate the sometimes permanent psychological damage inflicted on the survivors and their families.
François Ozon’s new film Frantz (cert 15, 114 mins,★★★★) is set in an old German town soon after the Armistice. Dr Hoffmeister’s son Frantz has been killed in the trenches, and every day Anna (Paula Beer), the boy’s fiancée, patiently walks to the cemetery in order to water the flowers on her beloved’s empty tomb.
