Peter von Kant

media release: France | 2022 | DCP | 85 min. | French with English subtitles 

Director: François Ozon; Cast: Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla  

Casting about for his next muse, a blustery auteur falls headlong for a lithe young boy toy, initiating a tempestuous affair that threatens to destroy his career and sanity. Ozon’s loose and sexy riff on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s masterful melodrama The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant cannily gender-swaps the lead roles, resulting in a florid, pillow-talk dialogue between two generations of queer cinema icons.

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