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Feb 10, 2022 · Because without its venerable lead, this twenty-first feature from France’s most prolific modern director might be something of a lark — a playful but reverent experiment that takes a gender ...
Sep 2, 2022 · “Peter von Kant” is set in the 1970s, and so Peter is prey to the self-hating masochism of an older gay man who naively thinks a transactional relationship with a beautiful young man is about...
Sep 1, 2022 · The prolific French director François Ozon puts a metatextual spin on “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” the classic German tale of amour fou.
- Beatrice Loayza
- François Ozon
Sep 2, 2022 · Reports of his “contradictory” and “complex” nature reveal what we already know: He was a self-medicating, workaholic perfectionist who drove himself into the ground, completing more than 40...
- Ryan Lattanzio
Aug 31, 2022 · Back-to-back viewings of German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s semi-autobiographical 1972 classic, “The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant,” and acclaimed French filmmaker François...
Dec 22, 2022 · Ozon’s version is snappier, funnier and yet more naturalistic as it tells the story of Peter (Denis Ménochet, magnificent), a film director styled to look like Fassbinder himself, who becomes...
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Feb 10, 2022 · Peter von Kant is perhaps a bit too rarefied an endeavor to significantly expand Ozon’s following, and some LGBTQ audiences might conceivably flinch at its protagonist’s self-flagellation...
