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GOUTTES D'EAU SUR PIERRES BR�LANTES
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France
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 90 min.
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WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS
Adapted from one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's early plays (which was never performed in his lifetime), the story is set in 1970s Germany. L�opold, a smug, well-kept 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces fresh-faced 19-year-old Franz who quickly moves into L�opold's bachelor's apartment. But their relationship soon sours when mercurial L�opold turns irritable and demanding. Things get stickier when first Franz's blonde girlfriend Anna, then L�opold's former lover V�ra (who may or may not have originally been a man), turn up.
A haunting return to the themes and concerns of one of the most influential film and theatre directors of the '70s. -- David Stratton (Variety)
This delirious, beautifully performed chamber piece is filmed in an impeccable, minimally glossy style evocative of THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. In Ozon's capable hands, Fassbinder's comically hyperbolized psychosexual mind games still achieve a giddy resonance. -- Dennis Lim (The Village Voice)
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Script: Fran�ois Ozon. D'apr�s la pi�ce/Based on the play: Tropfen auf heisse Steine. De/By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Phot.: Jeanne Lapoirie.
Ed.: Laurence Bawedin.
Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier, Anna Thomson.
Prod.: Marc Missonier,Fid�lit� Productions, 13, rue �tienne Nascel, 75001 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 55 34 98 08, fax: (33-01) 55 34 08 10.
Sales: Roissy Films-Celluloid Dreams, 24, rue Lamartine, 75009 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 49 70 09 85, fax: (33-01) 49 70 85 60.
Canadian Distributor: Les Films S�ville.
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Fran�ois Ozon
Born in Paris in 1967, Fran�ois Ozon graduated from FEMIS, the French national film academy. In 1994 he began making shorts and documentaries, all of which have been selected for international festivals and have garnered numerous prizes. These include: Action V�rit� (1994), La Petite Mort (1995), Une robe d'�t� (1996), Sc�nes de lit (1997) and See the Sea (1997). His auspicious first feature, SITCOM (1997), was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival as was CRIMINAL LOVERS (1999). |
