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Lightning Over Water documentary

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Original title

Lightning Over Water

Year

1980

Running time

91 min.

Country

Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Director

Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray

Screenwriter

Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray

Cast

Music

Ronee Blakley

Cinematography

Edward Lachman, Martin Schäfer

Producer

Co-production Germany - West Germany (FRG)-Germany-Sweden;

Genre

Documentary | Movie Documentary. Biography

Synopsis

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film "Hammett" (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

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Awards: 1980: German Film Awards: Film Award in Silver

1980: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection (Out of Competition)

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Critics' reviews

"A poignant and often painful film in which Wenders and the terminally ill Ray attempt to make a film together in the last days before Ray's death in 1979."

TV Guide
"Unquestionably the worst movie of Wim Wenders' career and indeed one of the worst movies ever made"

David Nusair: Reel Film
"'Lightning Over Water' is chaotic, emotionally and esthetically."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"Even with its painful contradictions and discomfitures, it's that current rarity: one for the heart."

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