Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes

Name: Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes
Director: François Ozon
Released: 2000

François Ozon

age gap relationships homosexuality infidelity power dynamics 1970s Germany

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Synopsis

In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.

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Yeah, it’s not really leaving me, and it never will, because it’s so much a part of who I am, and it’s always an attempt to try to explore what melodrama meant at different points in its history. I mean, Douglas Sirk and Fassbinder, the people that I look up to, were doing that in a very self-reflexive way.

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