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Water Drops On Burning Rocks (1999)
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WINNER of JURY PRIZE,BEST NARRATIVE,FEATURE-NEW YORK LESBIAN & GAY FILM FESTIVAL2000
WINNER of TEDDY AWARD,BEST FEATURE-BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2000
WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS is the newest film from François Ozon, the daring and innovative young French director who has already made waves with SEE THE SEA, SITCOM, CRIMINAL LOVERS and the recent Charlotte Rampling smash UNDER THE SAND.
Adapted from an unproduced play written by the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the age of 19, WATER DROPS is set in Germany in the 1970s. Leopold, a smug, still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces fresh-faced, carrot-topped 19-year-old Franz who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold, a kind of gone-to-seed Dirk Bogarde, turns cranky and argumentative. When Franz's buxom blond girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold's elegant and enigmatic ex, things get funnier, steamier and a lot more complicated.
Fassbinder blazed to glory in the 1970s and early 80s with dozens of movies that charted the relationship between sex and power, in and out of the bedroom. As with his best work, WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS is fraught with intimations of violence, irony, betrayal, and sexual shenanigans run amok.
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