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Germany, the '70s. Leopold, a smug, still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces a fresh faced, carrot-topped 19-year old Franz who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold, a kind of gone-to-seed Dirk Bogarde, turns cranky and argumentative. When Franz's buxom blonde girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold's elegant and enigmatic ex, things get funnier, steamier and a lot more complicated. Brilliantly adapted from a play by the great R.W. Fassbinder, by one of France's most daring and innovative new directors, Water Drops on Burning Rocks is fraught with intimiation sof violence, betrayal, and sexual shenanigans run amok.
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