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Water Drops on Burning Rocks

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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.

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Globe and Mail Rated: 2.5/4 Mar 19, 2002 Full Review Michael Thomson BBC.com Both characters and situation are little more than routine. Rated: 2/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 4/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Keith H. Brown Eye for Film Rated: 3/5 Dec 7, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review Audience Member Nicely built with a non-linear story Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member 6.4/10, my review: http://wp.me/p1eXom-2PP Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Lourd et pas jojo comme film, sur la complexité des rapports humains. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Visually seductive, but empty at the end. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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
Studio Images 6, Euro Space Inc., Les Films Alain Sarde, Fidélité Productions
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