Carlo Chatrian e i suoi collaboratori stanno tentando di salvare la prossima Berlinale, che comincia il 10 febbraio: il mercato è stato spostato tutto sull’online, la selezione ridotta di quattro giorni rispetto al solito, la capienza ridotta al 50% e l’ingresso solo per vaccinati e guariti.
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Il film di apertura è Peter von Kant, diretto da François Ozon, con protagonisti Denis Menochet, Isabelle Adjani e Hanna Schygulla.
Peter von Kant is a free interpretation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s masterpiece Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, 1972). Turning the character of Petra von Kant into a man and a filmmaker, superbly played by Denis Menochet, François Ozon pays tribute not only to the original film but to Fassbinder himself, and, in doing so, also delivers with his usual irony a very personal, playful self-portrait.
Secondo Chatrian: “We are beyond thrilled to welcome back François Ozon to the festival and are happy to launch our next edition with his new film. For this year’s opening, we were looking for a film that could bring lightness and verve into our somber daily lives. ‘Peter von Kant’ is a theatrical tour de force around the concept of lockdown. In the hands of Ozon, the kammerspiel becomes the perfect container for love and jealousy, seduction and humor – indeed, everything that makes life and art so entangled”.
Stanze di Cinema 