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Ricky

Based on a short story by Rose Tremain, this magical-realist fable is an intriguing and charming, if at times somewhat paradoxical, effort from experienced French director Francois Ozon. ”Ricky” is a tale of striking contradictions, beginning as a kitchen-sink drama, which centres on the love affair between two ordinary people, before transforming into an altogether different animal, shifting focus towards the extraordinary child resulting from their union.

With a storyline which wouldn’t be out of place in a Sixties Disney film, this is certainly an unusual choice for French auteur François Ozon, but unsurprisingly his interest is not so much in the ’extraordinary’ for its own sake, but rather for the way in which the extraordinary interacts with and impacts upon the ordinary and everyday.

– ADAM MICKLETHWAITE, EYE FOR FILM