(Berlin) The 2022 edition of the Berlin Film Festival will kick off on February 10 with the screening of Peter von Kant, by French director François Ozon, notably with Isabelle Adjani, the organizers announced on Wednesday.
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“We are particularly happy to welcome again François Ozon to the festival and to open the next edition with his film”, screened in official selection, wrote in a press release the direction of the Berlinale, which will take place from February 10 to 16 in the German capital.
“For the opening, we looked for a film that could bring lightness and momentum in our gloomy daily life,” she explains.
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Isabelle Adjani
Peter von Kant is a “free adaptation” of the film by German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder The bitter tears of Petra von Kant. It is, according to the Berlinale, “a cinematographic tour de force through the concept of confinement”, of confinement.
The film notably brings together Isabelle Adjani and Denis Menochet, nominated twice for the Césars, and the German actress Hanna Schygulla, former muse of Fassbinder.
Several films by François Ozon have already been chosen in the official selection of the Berlinale, including Thanks to God, Grand jury prize in 2019, and Eight Women. This film will be screened again this year as part of a tribute to Isabelle Huppert, who will receive an Honorary Golden Bear on February 15.
“It is a great pleasure and an honor to come back to Berlin, to which I associate only good memories, 22 years after the premiere of Water drops on burning stones, also adapted from Rainer Werner Fassbinder ”, greeted Mr. Ozon, quoted in the press release of the Berlinale.
The jury of the biggest European film festival after Cannes and Venice is chaired, for this 72e edition, by American director M. Night Shyamalan. The festival takes place this year largely face-to-face, after a 2021 online edition.