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  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary In this retelling of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film and play "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant," Peter Von Kant is a successful, famous director who 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 who h...

Directed By: François Ozon

Written By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, François Ozon

  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2022
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m

Peter von Kant

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Summary In this retelling of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film and play "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant," Peter Von Kant is a successful, famous director who 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 who h...

Directed By: François Ozon

Written By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, François Ozon

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
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58% Mixed
11 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
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58% Mixed
11 Reviews
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100
Sep 22, 2022
The uninitiated may wonder what the fuss is about, but for the true Fassbinder Heads out there, Peter von Kant is a revelation. Ozon has made one of the best homages to a master filmmaker ever made.
By Michael Talbot-Haynes FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 16, 2022
Both homage and critique, Peter von Kant astutely gets under the skin of the lesbian-themed original, ekes out new resonances and proves both authentically Fassbinderian and altogether Ozonesque in its ironic sensibilities.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 16, 2022
The breath of life and beating heart at the center of countless, Russian nesting doll layers of artifice and art-house reference, actor Denis Menochet doesn’t just anchor Peter von Kant, he makes the Francois Ozon project a film.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 19, 2022
It’s enjoyable enough, but Peter von Kant is a curiously insubstantial adjunct that trades some of the swirling, savage currents of melodrama of the original – which placed a female fashion designer rather than a male film-maker at the centre of the intrigue – for a frothy, flippant archness.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
58
Feb 16, 2022
Ozon wants to show us how committed a student of Fassbinder he is whilst successfully aping his dramaturgy and tone. But Fassbinder answered to no one.
By David Katz FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 1, 2022
Fassbinder’s work finds a kind of truth in the artifice of emotionally plumped-up dramas, but Ozon’s often tedious tragicomedy never hits such a stride, trusting that the material will automatically confer greatness; instead, “Peter” comes off like top-shelf fan-fiction.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 16, 2022
Everything in Fassbinder’s rightly canonized movie is fake, except the emotions. In Ozon’s loving, diverting but inessential homage, everything is real except the bitter, glycerine tears.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW

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Production Company FOZ, France 2 Cinéma, Playtime, Scope Pictures, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Cofinova 17, Indéfilms 10, La Banque Postale Image 14, Palatine Étoile 18, Cinéaxe 3, Cinémage 16, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Release Date Sep 2, 2022
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Unrated
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Website https://diaphana.fr/film/peter-von-kant/
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Awards

FilmOut San Diego, US
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
César Awards, France
• 2 Nominations

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