The unpredictable François Ozon (Summer of 85) directs once again Denis Ménochet, his star from By the Grace of God, who reaches new heights here. He plays a solitary, tyrannical filmmaker inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the mythical figure of 1970s German cinema. The man lives with his assistant, Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. One day, through the great actress Sidonie (a sublime Isabelle Adjani), he meets Amir, a young man of modest origin, for whom he feels a burning passion. Ozon signs an intimate and cruel psychodrama about the absurdity of desire. It is also a great portrait of the self-centered and jealous Artist. Freely adapted from The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, directed in 1972 by Fassbinder.