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 (1982) 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 (1982) 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.
Leave your thoughts about Lightning Over Water.
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonWenders adds in some cruddy early-80s video from time to time, and the film is an odd mixture of powerful emotions and rambling nothingness. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyLightning Over Water is chaotic, emotionally and esthetically. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairUnquestionably the worst movie of Wim Wenders' career and indeed one of the worst movies ever made... |
| User ReviewKarlo MWim Wenders, that german man, that new wave clown, makes this documentary into a piece of art. In the beginning of the film, Nick Ray pretends to be dead, much to the shock of those watching. It sets the tone for the movie, where the acting and the documenting play a delicate dance. Its really quite good, unique, and enjoyable to watch. Big Fan. |
| User ReviewLauri LDocumentary of last days of directore Nicholas Ray. It is sort of collebrative effort so that the whole film crew is credited as film makers. Wim Wenders is very much in the film and it doesn't follow any certain form and this makes it fresh and it hits emotional core of mine. |
| User ReviewPrivate UInteresting but I must say I was tempted to use FF a few times. |
| User ReviewJens TIt's it a documentary? A docu-drama? A work of fiction? I don't know. Is it really interesting? Yep. |
| User ReviewWalter MThis is a wonderful companion piece to Bunuel's Las Hurdes. While this seems to be more chaotic, it is obviously scripted, and both are savage in questioning the ethics and aesthetics of documentary film-making. It makes a fitting end to Nicholas Ray's career. |
| User ReviewRiley HIt's difficult, it's not very coherent, it's got a lot of problems (don't really get the editing). However, it's fascinating and it's very moving. And it asks so many questions, without really answering any of them, that it remains engaging to the end. |
| User ReviewRoberto BTitolo italiano: Lampi sull'acqua. Nick's movie. |
