Synopsis
Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, 2000) is François Ozon's chamber drama, yours to watch online on iFILM. In 1970s Germany, naive 20-year-old Franz is picked up by Léopold, a polished businessman past fifty, and moves into his flat within days.
The heady affair curdles fast into domestic warfare. Léopold nitpicks everything; Franz shrinks into the role of an anxious housewife waiting on a tyrant. Then the ex-girlfriends of both men turn up, and a tense quartet starts circling one apartment. Malik Zidi and Bernard Giraudeau play the couple right on the line between tenderness and control.
Ozon adapted Rainer Werner Fassbinder's first full-length play and kept almost the entire film inside four walls — claustrophobic, cruel and slyly funny about the way love slides into dependence. A young Ludivine Sagnier turns up in support. Stream Water Drops on Burning Rocks online on iFILM.
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