BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 23 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:

Professor Mariah Devereux Herbeck presented her paper, "A Taste for Deception: Loss, Gain, and Narrative Ambiguity in Francois Ozon's Quand vient l'automne," at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference, held Oct. 9, 2026, in Ogden, Utah. The talk was part of a panel titled "Loss and Gain in Post-1800 French Literature and Film."

Ozon, perhaps best known to American audiences for his recent adaptation of Camus's L'Étranger, has built a career on genre-hopping, moving fluidly between the musical whodunit of "8 Femmes," the psychological thriller of "Swimming Pool," and the social drama of "Grace a Dieu." "Quand vient l'automne" (2024) co...