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Still playing, but now the dolls are real

By Emily Stokes

Published: October 26 2007 15:18 | Last updated: October 26 2007 15:18

When François Ozon was a little boy in Paris, he had a dolls’ house. In the dolls’ house lived a family that resembled his own: bossy siblings, intellectual parents. Through his play, and with his parents’ encouragement to be an artist, he escaped from reality “and all the problems that the child can have in the family”.

It soon occurred to him that he could combine his love of dolls’ houses and his obsession with early Walt Disney and old French movies by making films himself.

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