Nostalgia, authorship and sexualities in the new French cinema. Fassbinder's legacy in François Ozon's Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes.

This article aims to analyse François Ozon's film Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes/Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) as a cultural product eliciting mechanisms of nostalgia within wider discourses on sexuality. Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his cinema are the direct referents for Ozon, who promo...

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Publicado en:French Screen Studies Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 54 - 74
Autor principal: Biasin, Enrico
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2026
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