Peter von Kant

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Peter von Kant

2022

1h 24m

Comedy

Drama

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57 Reviews

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Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, 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. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir Break into the world of cinema....

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Peter von Kant finds François Ozon making a nervy attempt to build on a Fassbinder classic -- and succeeding more often than he fails.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Jan 3, 2023

5/5

Ozon’s translation is a playful addition to the canon. It may lack the bitterness that Fassbinder skilfully worked into his film and its title, but it compensates with unmissable glass-throwing, door-slamming romantic agony.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Jan 3, 2023

3/5

For anyone who has seen that movie [The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant]... there’s plenty to enjoy here, as Ozon tweaks, twists and sporadically subverts the original and infuses it with ironic camp.

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Juan Barquin

Little White Lies

Dec 28, 2022

2/5

Moments that shine through, but feels too much like an intellectual experiment.

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Geoffrey Macnab

iNews.co.uk

Jan 17, 2025

3/5

It’s well observed and entertaining, but there is none of the perversity and very little of the darkness that you find in Fassbinder’s best films.

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William Stottor

Loud and Clear Reviews

Aug 13, 2024

3/5

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is reimagined and gender-flipped in Peter Von Kant, François Ozon ’s engaging but strangely flimsy chamber piece.

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Stephanie Bunbury

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Sep 19, 2023

This is maestro on maestro -- and there is no question that Ozon makes it his own.

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Tim M

@tgmacman Dec 13, 2025

While nowhere near as avant-garde as its inspiration, the gender-swapped Peter von Kant still has exemplar acting and dialogue in spades.

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Matthew P

@RT81845679 Jan 25, 2023

Great performances. I'm an Ozon fan ("Swimming Pool") and he really allows the audience to spend time with these characters. Plus, the music's great, too.

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Filminside P

@RT70732396 Sep 13, 2022

Im not sure what to think about this. There might be some reference to cinema history and Fassbender, but aside from that the movie doesnt offer much. The plot happens almost only in one place which I really liked and the butler Karl was hilarious, other than that, the movie felt like thousands of gut punches.

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Synopsis

Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, 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. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir Break into the world of cinema....

Director: François Ozon
Producer: François Ozon
Screenwriter: François Ozon
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: France 2 Cinéma, FOZ
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 2, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 24m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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