Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) by François Ozon
“I’m a true cinema maniac. My favourite director is Renoir. All films by Renoir: I can hardly pick just one. I have a real affection for French cinema in general, from New Wave, from before and after. Today, I especially like François Ozon, and not only because he reveres Fassbinder. With Water Drops on Burning Rocks, he dared to do something new. He reinvented Fassbinder his own way. Rainer always said that it is impossible to remake or copy. It’s only possible to do personal things. Ozon told me he discovered Fassbinder with a play which paid tribute to him and that he had so many difficulties then to discover Rainer’s films because only a few were available. So he discovered them as the successive restorations went by, discovering Fassbinder the same way Fassbinder discovered Douglas Sirk.”

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