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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.
Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. Director. François Ozon. Writers.
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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...
Feb 10, 2022 · François Ozon’s gender-swap revamp of Fassbinder’s Petra von Kant serves ironic homage on Berlin’s opening night.
Dec 20, 2022 · Steven Ryder explores François Ozon’s reverence for the prolific New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder by delving into his latest film, an adaptation of Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Jul 3, 2022 · Peter Von Kant is a filmmaker who finds his new love in Amir, and will do anything to introduce him to the world of cinema. But faced with a fickle, profiteering young man (synonym), the...
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May 15, 2021 · Gender-switched to accommodate a more realistic portrayal of the German director’s obsession with actor Günther Kaufmann, PETER stars Denis Ménochet as the Fassbinder stand-in—the booze, the coke, the hectic workload intact—and Isabelle Adjani as his best frenemy Sidonie.
