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Lightning Over Water

1980 · 1h 31m · N/A Documentary
Directed by Nicholas Ray , Wim Wenders

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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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Lightning Over Water is chaotic, emotionally and esthetically.

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

Time Out

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