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- The result, titled Peter von Kant, seems almost tailor-made to open the Berlin Film Festival, with its roots in German film history and its extravagant homage to one of the country’s most radical 20th century auteurs, who died in 1982 aged just 36.
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Peter von Kant is a 2022 French comedy drama film written and directed by François Ozon. It is a loose adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which he adapted into a film in 1972, but here with the sex of the principal characters changed from female to male.
Sep 2, 2022 · Ozon has said that he made this change because “Petra von Kant” was based on Fassbinder’s own feelings of despair over his lover Gunther Kaufmann, but writing female characters is partly...
Sep 2, 2022 · “Peter von Kant” is both an agonized cry from a director’s soul and an answer to Ozon’s own obsession with Fassbinder, which dates back to the French director’s debut feature, “Water Drops...
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Feb 11, 2022 · Now, to open this year’s Berlin film festival, he has returned to the dark master of New German Cinema with a gender-switched version of Fassbinder’s 1972 movie The Bitter Tears of Petra von...
Nov 11, 2022 · In remaking a work by his favorite filmmaker, Ozon’s Peter von Kant aims to be something of a non-biopic biopic of Fassbinder. It embraces the Oedipal flavor of the remake, allowing Ozon to explore and expose his favorite filmmaker.
Like Water Drops on Burning Rocks, the film is based on a Fassbinder play, one the German director himself adapted onscreen as the 1972 classic The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Feb 10, 2022 · ‘Peter von Kant’ Review: Francois Ozon Takes on Fassbinder in Experimental Gender-Swapped Drama. France's most prolific contemporary filmmaker offers up a playful but reverent remake of Rainer...
