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In the films of François Ozon, summer is a time of possibility, promise, and even mystery. In the provocative Under the Sand (2000), his first of many character studies with Charlotte Rampling, the salty pleasures of a seaside swim are quickly overtaken by waves of shock and grief. For Ozon, the joys of summer are ephemeral, its fleeting pleasures inexorably intertwined with its...