Prolific french auteur Francois Ozon returns with a quicksilver dark comedy that sees Fabrice ♉Luchini play Germain, a literat꧙ure teacher faced with gifted 16-year-old pupil Claude (Ernst Umhauer).

Encouraged, Claude p🔯ens a series of essays about his classmate, Rapha, and his family – which the voyeuristic Germain delights in reading to his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas).

Needless to say, as fiction and reality blur, it all ✱gets très messy, as Ozon vividly explores ideas of manipulation and authorial control.

Utterly assured, breathtakingly executed and rioto💜usly funny, this is a delight.