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- BFI identifier554377
- Date1999 (Copyright)
- Production countryFrance, Japan
- Production company
- SynopsisDrama. Set in 1970's Germany, the film follows 50-year-old businessman, Leopold, who meets and falls in love with 19-year-old Franz, although the younger man has a fiancée. Differences of opinion gradually begin to drive the two apart, exacerbated by the return of the deserted fiancée, Anna, while Leopold is away. To complicate matters further, Vera, the transsexual ex-lover of Leopold, also makes an appearance, and the scene is set for mind games between the four protagonists. (Synopsis) Based on a previously unproduced play by the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Comedy focusing on the shifting power in sexual relationships. (Synopsis)
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: François Ozon
Production Company: Fidélité Productions
Production Company: Les Films Alain Sarde
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Title
GOUTTES D'EAU SUR PIERRES BRÛLANTES (Original)
WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS (Alternative)
WATER DROPS ON RAINING ROCKS (Alternative)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Posters / Designs
- StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1121726
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1121727
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1121728
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1121729
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-r1c
view all - ArticlesCineforum n410 December 2001 - Credits, ReviewSight and Sound v10 n11 November 2000 - Credits, Review, SynopsisEdinburgh Film Festival Catalogue v54th 2000 - Credits, Review, SynopsisFilm Review n599 November 2000 - ReviewLe Film Francais n2813 4 Feb 2000 - Creditsview all
- GOUTTES D'EAU SUR PIERRES BRÛLANTES
Work - 554377 - 1999 (Copyright)
France - Film - Fiction
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