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
Positive:
8
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0
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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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