Beyond the Multiplex: Seeing and Knowing: Story and Plot in '5x2'

Recounting a couple's doomed marriage in reverse, François Ozon's unsettling representation of romantic incompatibility both manipulates traditional narrative conventions and allows key events to remain ambiguous. As Dennis Bruining contends, the film presents a useful case study in the distinctions between story and plot, and the difficulties that viewers may face in attempting to reconcile them.

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Beyond the Multiplex, senior secondary, active spectatorship, infidelity, rape, divorce, French, 5×2