Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water

Originaltitel: Lightning Over Water

1980
12
1 Std. 31 Min.

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Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water (1980)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuWim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.

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6,7/10

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Auszeichnungen
- 1 Gewinn & 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Final film directed by Nicholas Ray; this also marks as his first documentary.

Zitate
Wim Wenders: I didn't come here to talk about dying Nick... but we might have to.
Nicholas Ray: But we might have to?
Wim Wenders: I was looking forward to seeing you, because I need your advice. You told me on the phone that you wanted to see me, but I was afraid to come too. And I think I'd rather tell you right now; why. I was aware that I'd see you in weakness, and... that... you might be worried about being seen this way. But I feel it's okay now. There is something else that came to my mind in the plane last night, that I'm actually more afraid of. I thought that I could find myself being attracted to your weakness, or to your suffering, and... if I realized I was, I think I would have to leave you. It would feel like abusing you... or betraying you.
Nicholas Ray: That won't happen.
Wim Wenders: Good! So what are our plans for the rest of the day?

Alternative Versionen
After Nicholas Ray died, Wim Wenders was too depressed to help edit the film, so he left it to Peter Przygodda. Przygodda spent a year working on it, and this was the 116-minute version shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Wenders, however, was disturbed by this version and found it depressing and obscure. He spent three months with Chris Sievernich re-editing the film. Aside from cutting more than 25 minutes, he added more footage of Susan Ray as well as his narration of Ray's diary. This 91-minute version is the one distributed by the Wim Wenders foundation.

Verbindungen
Edited from Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre (1979)

Soundtracks
Lightning Over Water
Performed by Ronee Blakley

Benutzerrezensionen13

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

A painful homage to a film maker and to a friend

Lightning Over Water began as a collaborative idea to tell the story of a dying painter who steals art from museums and replaces them with his own forgeries. Suffering from terminal cancer himself, Ray's health quickly deteriorates during the project. The film eventually ceases to be a work of fiction and becomes a documentary of Ray's finals days in which he fittingly spends making film. In reflecting over his career and life, Ray ponders his successes and failures as a film maker who is best known for Rebel Without a Cause (1955). A poignant and often disturbing film, Lighting Over Water is ultimately a painful homage to a film maker and to a friend (Klaus Ming March 2013).