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Feb 10, 2022 · France's most prolific contemporary filmmaker offers up a playful but reverent remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant." Editor’s note: This review was ...
Dec 20, 2022 · How Peter von Kant Reinvents a Classic. 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. One could argue that the curiously amorphous French director François Ozon owes a ...
Inevitably, by recasting Petra von Kant as a version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder himself, François Ozon has rendered the film self-consciously cinematic.
Jul 12, 2022 · In Ozon’s Peter von Kant, we end up with a chamber drama where the debauched dialogues and sexual tension seem omnipresent. Raging out of control much of time, Ménochet as Peter von Kant delivers a temper-overloaded performance in this uber-queer retro feast that is a curious homage to Fassbinder, the passionate artist whose hedonism changed cinema but ruined his own life.
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Feb 18, 2022 · The title gives away the two biggest changes in Peter von Kant, Francois Ozon’s mannered, self-amused, oddly aerated reworking of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play and film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. The most obvious, you might think, is in the naming.
Jul 3, 2022 · With Peter Von Kant, out in cinemas this Wednesday, July 6, François Ozon returns to his first love, the theatrical huis-clos.Like Potiche and 8 Femmes, the director's 21st feature film is a ...
Sep 1, 2022 · With “Peter Von Kant,” the prolific French director François Ozon pays homage to one of his most enduring influences, the New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder, nearly 20 films ...
