Lightning Over Water (1980)

Lightning Over Water (1980). 1h 31m | K-3

“Painful but beautiful, poignant but disturbing, this film is unmissable for anyone loving Nick Rayu0026#39;s spirit and features. This director was not a Hollywood yes man, the common boot licker facing the moguls. His entire director life was a dog fight, and because he was a very sensitive and brilliant, intelligent but fragile man, he became a drug and many other substances addict, including sex and women. That slowly destroyed him. In this film, you watch him dying, filmed by his friend Wim Wenders. Useless to say that is not for all audiences, only die hard Nick Rayu0026#39;s or Wenders fans. Itu0026#39;s more a document than a fiction feature. Itu0026#39;s better to watch it on DVD with the directoru0026#39;s comment, with all the indications and explanations; useless to see the u0026quot;nakedu0026quot; movie, as it better for most of regular, ordinary movies. The thing that moved me the most was Nicku0026#39;s eyes, glance, the eyes of someone very intelligent, someone certainly not full of emptiness. The eyes of someone very alive. Very lucid. And believe me, this film is eveything but peeping tom oriented. No, Nick Ray totally agreed to be filmed, and not dying alone. So painful. RIP Nick.”