Peter von Kant

Peter von Kant, a hard-partying, film director at the top of his craft, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie he meets Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. Peter falls in love, offers to share his apartment and helps Amir break into the world of cinema…

The Opening Film of the 2022 Berlinale, Peter von Kant is a free adaption of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. François Ozon made a breakthrough in his film-making career in 2000 with an adaptation of an unproduced stage play by Fassbinder, Water Drops on Burning Rocks. Now Ozon goes back to his roots with the reworking of a Fassbinder classic and offers a gender-swapped version that serves as an indirect portrait of the troubled maestro himself. The film is lighter than the original, more camp - a cruel satire of the celebrity - and a perfect tribute to Fassbinder by a major voice in cinema today.

Filmography: Everything Went Fine (2021), Summer of 85 (2020), Double Lover (2017), Frantz (2016), In the House (2012), Potiche (2010), Swimming Pool (2003), 8 Women (2002), Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000), Criminal Lovers (1999).

Screened as part of a double feature with the film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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