Water Drops on Burning Rocks

2000, France, 82m, DCP

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Screened June 24–25, 2024

A premier LGBTQIA+ filmmaker from one generation honors another from the generation prior as Ozon’s first (but not last) adaptation of a Rainer Werner Fassbinder piece is ruefully funny and sexy, ideally rooted in tribute via 1970s aesthetics and form while making it his own. Malik Zidi finds his head turned away from fiancée Ludivine Sagnier (in the first of her four films so far for Ozon) and towards middle-aged man Bernard Giraudeau, but exes are never truly out of the picture — as the latter’s (played by NYC indie film staple Anna Thomson) belated arrival proves.

A film by François Ozon