Love Exposure vs Water Drops on Burning Rocks

Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.5/10 for Water Drops on Burning Rocks). Water Drops on Burning Rocks is the shorter watch at 1h 26m compared with 3h 57m. Water Drops on Burning Rocks is the older of the two (2000 against 2009). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Love Exposure posterLove Exposure2009 VS Water Drops on Burning Rocks posterWater Drops on Burning Rocks2000
Love ExposureWater Drops on Burning Rocks
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 6.5/10
Year20092000
Length3h 57m1h 26m
GenresAction, Comedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryJapan–
DirectorSion SonoFrançois Ozon
Main castHikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku NagaokaBernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier, Anna Thomson

Synopsis

Love Exposure

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.

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