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Water Drops on Burning Rocks

2000 · Movie · 79 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer75%as of 2025-05-23
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.8/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic73/100as of 2024-02-11

What it is

Water Drops on Burning Rocks is a 2000 French romantic comedy drama film directed by François Ozon, based on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play Tropfen auf heißen Steinen. The plot concerns a 50 year old businessman in 1970s Germany, who becomes infatuated with a man 30 years his junior.

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Genres
Drama
Original language
French

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