Drops on hot stones
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Drops on hot stones |
| Original title | Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brulantes |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | François Ozon |
| script | François Ozon |
| music |
Georg Friedrich Handel , Gustav Mahler , Giuseppe Verdi , Tony Holiday , Françoise Hardy |
| camera | Jeanne Lapoirie |
| cut |
Laurence Bawedin Claudine Bouché |
| occupation | |
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Drops on hot stones (original title: Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brulantes ) is a French tragedy from 2000 . It was directed by François Ozon , with Bernard Giraudeau and Malik Zidi in the leading roles . The film was based on the play of the same name by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from 1964.
action
Germany in the 1970s: In a big city, nineteen-year-old Franz is approached on the street by fifty-year-old Léopold and invited into his apartment. Although Franz actually has an appointment with his fiancé Anna, he cannot resist the curiosity and fascination with the older man.
An invitation to a drink becomes a homosexual co-marriage. While Léopold takes care of the living as a traveling salesman, Franz takes on the domestic chores. But passion becomes an everyday routine. More and more, Léopold shows himself to be a bad-tempered tyrant.
One day Anna turns up during one of Léopold's business trips. Franz enjoys her unconditional dependence on him, but cannot make up her mind to leave Léopold. When he comes back, Anna succumbs to the older man's charm. With the appearance of Véra, a former friend of Léopold's, who underwent a sex change for his sake , a web of dependencies emerges from which no one can find a way out.
Before the drama reaches its tragic climax, it is interrupted by a hysterical, strangely cheerful, bizarre, almost self-ironic dance scene in which all the characters involved let their buttocks circling with me in a simple choreography to the music of Tony Holidays dance samba with me . In another music scene, Françoise Hardy sings the song Dreams that arise at night in German .
background
Rainer Werner Fassbinder never performed this play. The premiere took place three years after his death. The film was implemented by François Ozon as a chamber play for four people in four acts. Ozon had shot two versions of the end of the film; for the final version he chose the tragic ending.
Reviews
“Ozon plunders both Fassbinder's play and the strict aesthetics of his early films, settling it in the stage-like decor of an apartment from the late sixties - and alienating the drama into the grotesque precisely through its alleged allegiance to the epoch. In contrast to the play, the generation battle between Fassbinder and Ozon is clearly won by the next born. "
“A highly artificial, excellently performed adaptation of an early play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Its stylized, sometimes garish artificiality permeates the film far from any confusion in order to penetrate the grief, loneliness and lack of identity of the people. "
Web links
- Drops on Burning Rocks in the Internet Movie Database (English)