Water Drops on Burning Rocks

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Water Drops on Burning Rocks

Released Feb 13, 2000

1h 25m

Drama

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Germany, the '70s. 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.

Michael Thomson

BBC.com

Both characters and situation are little more than routine.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 1, 2000

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Ernest Hardy

Film.com

The film is very theatrical and admittedly 'staged,' but always purposefully.

Jan 1, 2000

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David Lamble

Bay Area Reporter

This is the easiest to admire and the hardest to like of Ozon's films released in America.

May 12, 2020

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Edna Fainaru

Screen International

Ozon's most controlled film to date has taken a claustrophobic character study... t and turned it into an often sardonic but always absorbing observation of human beings enslaved by their addiction to sex.

Mar 5, 2018

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Keith H. Brown

Eye for Film

Rated: 3/5

Dec 7, 2007

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 3/5

Nov 5, 2004

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Richard D

These little, charged dramas of Fassbinder are compelling for reasons I don't understand.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/04/23

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Audience Member

Nicely built with a non-linear story

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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6.4/10, my review: http://wp.me/p1eXom-2PP

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Lourd et pas jojo comme film, sur la complexitÃ© des rapports humains.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Audience Member

Twisted, odd, original re-working of Rainer Fassbinder --- complete with inappropriate musical number. Not to be missed.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Visually seductive, but empty at the end.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Germany, the '70s. 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.

Director: François Ozon
Producer: Christine Gozlan, Kenzô Horikoshi, Alain Sarde, Marc Missonnier, Olivier Delbosc
Screenwriter: François Ozon, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Distributor: Zeitgeist Films
Production Co: Fidélité Productions, Euro Space Inc., Les Films Alain Sarde, Studio Images 6
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 13, 2000, Original
Release Date (DVD): Oct 9, 2001
Box Office (Gross USA): $87.3K
Runtime: 1h 25m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1