The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is a compelling drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, focusing on the intense and tumultuous relationships of Petra von Kant, a prominent fashion designer in ...

More than 20 years after adapting a Rainer Werner Fassbinder play called “Waters Drops on Burning Rocks” into a movie, François Ozon has made this gender-flipped adaptation of one of Fassbinder’s ...

The Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern (always delightful in its difference from all the little pink pigs) is following up last year’s Russian season with a German season, which opened May 3 at ...

Ozon's scorching new film "Peter von Kant" is a quasi-remake of Fassbinder's 1972 "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" and a searching study of a troubled director's life and work. Rainer Werner ...

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is Third Space's latest remix smash-up of theatrical form and style. When a new model, Karin, enters the home of famous fashion designer Petra von Kant, Petra's ...

Exclusive: Celebrating the 50th anniversay of "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant," the Berlin hit is set to premiere at Frameline this weekend. François Ozon is one of France’s most prolific ...

The French filmmaker discusses reimagining the German auteur's classic film and why his work has "always haunted" him. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief François Ozon must be experiencing a ...

In the dictionary of Received Critical Wisdom, we are told that the way to turn a play into something cinematic is to open up the space. Plays can only take place in one setting, so the obvious ...

If the title of the film “Peter von Kant” sounds vaguely familiar, then: A) You’re probably old enough to know the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died of a drug overdose in 1982; and B) You’re ...

ONE OF Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most mesmerizing and claustrophobic films, “The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant” is a study of the changing balance of power in the relationships between several women ...

One of the prolific and undeniably influential R.W. Fassbinders masterpieces, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant is a scalding feat of hermetic obsession, here transposed to the early 1980s New York ...