UW Cinematheque | François Ozon’s PETER VON KANT – Madison Premiere!

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. (MK)