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This set of six domestic French character posters for François Ozon's Potiche (featuring Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Lucchini, Karin Viard, Jérémie Renier and Judith Godreche) sells the film as a non-highbrow comedy, and is perhaps the first indication as to why Cannes was less welcoming to include the film in their main comp. Ozon was probably amongst the first to land spots in Venice and Toronto.

We've all seen the pic of Catherine Deneuve in her red track suit, and now we've got two more to pad up our enthusiasm for what could be a great film from distinguished filmmaker François Ozon. Potiche is receiving its world premiere in Venice and is tethered to a logical release at TIFF, and what I'm expecting is a lighter commentary on gender and class differences.

I tend to prefer when Ozon works with "less", by less I mean a smaller ensemble as in Water Drops on Burning Rocks, Sous le sable, Swimming Pool and 5x2. So he once again won over critics when he stuck to a simple story as done with Le Refuge, and while Figurehead contains a stellar ensemble (he once again works with Ludivine Sagnier) that seems to be as big as Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale, I've got a feeling that the era in which it is set in and the famous play on which it is based on might only give the project wings. Look for women with crazy hairdos, men with lots of facial hair and lots of lavish trimmings from the bourgeoisie folk.

Simply constructed, without no large, sweeping emotional cues, a behind a big pair of shades Isabelle Carré effortlessly runs a gamut of emotions in minor keys.

Le refuge one came out of the woodworks rather quickly, reminding us that Ozon's one film per year pacing in the last decade makes him one of the hardest working filmmakers around.