Peter von Kant (2022)

Directed by

François Ozon

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

12

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 106 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful filmmaker finds himself in an intense and destructive relationship with a younger man. The story follows his emotional spirals and manipulations as desire turns into obsession and cruelty.

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What happens

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. It is Ozon's second cinematic adaptation of a Fassbinder play after Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000). The film premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival as its opening film on 10 February 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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