Francois Ozon Set to Direct Fassbinder Adaptation ‘Petra Von Kant’ With Isabelle Adjani
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrancois Ozon, one of France’s most prestigious and prolific filmmakers, will next direct Isabelle Adjani and Denis Menochet (“Custody”) in “Petra Von Kant,” a film adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s cult play “The Bitter Tears.”“Petra Von Kant” will star Menochet as Fassbinder, while Adjani will play the German director’s muse, according to Satellifax, which was first to report the news.“The Bitter Tears” was previously adapted into a film by Fassbinder himself in 1972.