Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)

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Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna - "Love the Hard Way" (2001)
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Love the Hard Way

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.
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Rating: NONE
Release Date: Jul 12, 2000
Running Time: 82 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue French
Country Of Origin: France
Country Of Origin: Japan
director: Francois Ozon
synopsis
A 1970's Germany, May-December gay romance goes wrong: Leopold, a smug still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 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 blond girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold's elegant ex (who may or may not have originally been a man) shows up, things get funnier, steamier and a lot more complicated. while charting the relationship between sex and power, in and out of the bedroom.
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Passion and kindness fail to coexist in this perverse French-language comedy, adapted from an early stage play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Set in 1970s Germany, Leopold, a 50-something businessman, picks up and brings home 19-year-old Franz, who is on his way to meet his fiancee. After a speedy, sweet seduction, they set up house and become as comfortable as old, bickering shoes. Perservering Franz plays an apron-sporting housewife to surly, petulant Leopold. But after Anna, Franz's… Continued

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