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Peter (Denis Ménochet), a well-known director, is struggling to write his next film. When his best friend, Sidonie (Isabelle Adjani) introduces him to Amir, an aspiring actor, Peter falls madly in love with the youth and beauty of the young man, who uses his lover… A year after the release of ” Everything went well”, with Sophie Marceau, François Ozon adapts an iconic film by his favorite director, Rainer Fassbinder, released in 1972, “The bitter tears of Petra Von Kant”. “I didn’t want to copy and paste, but, as one adapts a Shakespeare, a Molière or a Chekhov, to give a modern and contemporary version in which I can project myself”, he explains. “I transformed the three female characters into male roles. But by digging a little, I realized that it was autobiographical, that Fassbinder had been inspired by his passion for Günther Kaufmann, who plays the American soldier in ” The marriage of Maria Braun ”, explains the director 55 years old, with his air of a perpetual young man.
love of work
Ozon also pays homage to art, in the middle of the cinema, which has always been his life, he who has been releasing a film a year for two decades. “It’s the love of work, he falls in love with Amir while filming him, the camera is an object of predation that allows you to possess the other”. A film like a play, very well written, on one of François Ozon’s favorite subjects: the romantic encounter, the taste for desire, for the intimacy that he explores, as in “Jeune et Jolie”, on prostitution, or “Swimming Pool”, on two women. Or in the nostalgic (and somewhat autobiographical) “Summer of 85”, where two boys fall in love. But if we rewind, his first success comes quickly. A graduate of La Fémis, after a master’s degree in cinema, a student of Rohmer, he went on to make short films, being spotted very quickly and selected for Cannes in 1996.
failures and successes
“Sitcom”, his first feature film, evokes tensions in a bourgeois family. Another genre that he likes. Then the success was total in 2000, with the release of “Sous le sable” and the enigmatic Charlotte Rampling, to whom Ozon gave impetus to a new career. Like Woody Allen, he goes on filming, alternates genres, and has the greatest actors play, the most eclectic too, from Jérémie Renier to Adjani, therefore. From Benjamin Voisin (“Summer 85”) to Fanny Ardant, via Pierre Niney, Fabrice Luchini, Melvil Poupaud, Isabelle Huppert… And even Dany Boon, who joined the cast of his new shoot, the mysterious “Madeleine”. His 22nd film will again be the adaptation of a play. In his 25-year career, he, who has never received a César, has had successes, but also failures – “Everything went well”, “Angel”… – But one thing is certain, he is not not ready to stop spinning!
“Peter Von Kamp” by Francois Ozon. In theaters from July 6.
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