Peter von Kant
Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 2, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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100
Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesSep 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. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonAug 31, 2022
François Ozon’s Peter von Kant, about a film director toxically obsessed with a young actor, is much more than a remake. It’s a valentine. Read full review
80
EmpireIan FreerDec 20, 2022
It might be a minor work from a major filmmaker but François Ozon’s remix of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s classic has its pleasures, chiefly strong performances across the board, especially from Isabelle Adjani and the immense Denis Ménochet, embodying the German maverick without ever descending into impersonation. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyFeb 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. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 16, 2022
Peter von Kant is perhaps a bit too rarefied an endeavor to significantly expand Ozon’s following, and some LGBTQ audiences might conceivably flinch at its protagonist’s self-flagellation, much as they did with Fassbinder’s. But its skewering of celebrity is mischievously enjoyable and its declaration of love for a queer-cinema forefather disarmingly sincere. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzSep 6, 2022
François Ozon's "Peter von Kant" is an odd, chilly film, even by this director's standards. Read full review
75
IndieWireBen CrollFeb 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. Read full review
70
SlashfilmBarry LevittOct 27, 2022
While it does occasionally feel a little too one-note and repetitive, even in its brief runtime, a host of wonderful performances, meticulous set detailings, and expertly claustrophobic cinematography make Peter Von Kant worthwhile. Read full review
60
CineVueChristopher MachellDec 29, 2022
Beyond its gender-swapped lead role, Peter von Kant never truly ventures into new territory and so never quite justifies its own existence. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeDec 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. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 16, 2022
Where Fassbinder crafted extraordinary tableaux of self-parodic misery, such as the drunken, prostrate Petra diving for the phone on her white shag carpet, Ozon breezes through this exercise instead with his usual snappy relish. He has plenty to say about the original’s magnificence, but perhaps not an awful lot to add. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 16, 2022
There is something lighter, almost flippant and French-farcical about this new Von Kant: a man brought low by l’amour, inviting from the audience hardly more than a worldly, sympathetic shrug. Read full review
58
The Film StageDavid KatzFeb 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. Read full review
50
Little White LiesJuan BarquinJan 6, 2023
It’s a lot more interesting and exciting to think about than it is to watch. Read full review
50
TheWrapDan CallahanSep 2, 2022
If Ozon’s Peter von Kant has its minor pleasures, they come from the performers. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaSep 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. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanAug 31, 2022
There are pleasures to be had here, though it wouldn’t be accurate to call “Peter” fun, by any stretch of the imagination. At times this admiring but uninspired making-of movie feels like the cinematic equivalent of the Karl/Marlene character: fawning to the point of sycophancy. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAug 31, 2022
Specific as Ozon’s approach here may be (nothing feels accidental or arbitrary), his lovingly made curio, which often borrows verbatim from its predecessor, comes off a bit tired and trifling. Read full review
50
VarietyJessica KiangFeb 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. Read full review
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