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Our review of Peter von Kant: The Pygmalion's New Clothes

2022-07-05T14:29:27.170Z


CRITICISM – François Ozon pays homage to Fassbinder by offering a very personal rereading of his film released in 1972. With Isabelle Adjani and Hanna Schygulla.


Covid or not Covid, François Ozon does not deviate from his Chabrol strategy.

But by making one film a year, the director takes the risk of (getting) tired.

This no doubt explains his permanent desire to change registers, to vary genres and eras, with all the same the constant desire to shoot with stars.

A few months later

Everything went well

, with Sophie Marceau and André Dussollier, thus arrives on the screens

Peter von Kant

, presented at the opening of the Berlinale, last February.

For Ozon, it's already a thing of the past.

He has since boxed

Madeleine

, an adaptation of the eponymous play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, with a sparkling cast (Isabelle Huppert, Dany Boon, Fabrice Luchini and the young and talented Rebecca Marder and Nadia Tereszkiewicz).

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With

Peter von Kant

, Ozon treats himself to recreation at Rainer Werner Fassbinder's.

He has boundless admiration for the German playwright and filmmaker and has already adapted one of his plays more than…

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