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Human Flowers of Flesh

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Ida lives on a ship with her crew of five men. In Marseille her attention is caught by the secretive male world of the French Foreign Legion and she decides to follow its traces across the Mediterranean. As Ida and her crew sail via Corsica to the historical headquarters of the Legion in Algeria, boundaries and certainties blur while life at sea produces a special kind of mutual understanding.
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Natalia Winkelman New York Times 04/13/2023
There is little story beyond the snatches of conversation we receive, but “Human Flowers of Flesh” brims with visual and aural detail from the rocky coasts and gurgling reefs. Go to Full Review Clayton Dillard Slant Magazine 04/10/2023
1.5/4
There’s an emptiness to Helena Wittmann’s Human Flowers of Flesh that no amount of striking cinematography, thematic suggestion, and allusions to Jean Painlevé can disguise. Go to Full Review David Jenkins Little White Lies 08/09/2022
A towering, teetering and exquisitely-wrought puzzle box whose every shot invites the viewer to play a game of cool subtextual interpretation. Go to Full Review Alexander Miller Film Inquiry 06/25/2023
Human Flowers of Flesh is a dizzying whip-up of moody emulsion, a heady brew of dreamy realism that evokes the best of the European arthouse all the while retaining a distinct visionary eye. Go to Full Review Soham Gadre Film Inquiry 04/22/2023
Hypnotizing, it is an inventive and enchanting movie about the sea. Go to Full Review Dustin Chang Floating World 04/13/2023
Is this Wittmann's way of commenting on the colonialism or what's left of it? I'd like to think that it's more of a kinship between two people who understand not having a home and its loneliness. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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James L 03/21/2024 If you enjoy 60 second and frequently longer static scenes of a snail starting to crawl on a plate of fruit, dizzying closeups of the surface of water that remind you of that time you got really really seasick, closeups of people doing nothing, saying nothing, then looking in a different direction to continue doing nothing and saying nothing, with only the occasional and completely pointless snippets of "dialogue" scattered throughout, with no story, no dramatization, and a pace that is non existent unless that snail moving half an inch in two minutes seems like pace to you…than this is your movie. Technically a grammar school auteur could do better with a cell phone. A truly colossal self-indulgent piece of experimental artless "art". The only mystery in this waste of an hour and 40 minutes is whether you will gratefully die before it's over. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Helena Wittmann

Director

Angeliki Papoulia

Ida

Vladimir Vulevic

Vlad

Mauro Soares

Mauro

Gustavo de Mattos

Jahn

Ferhat Mouhali

Farouk

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Movie Info

Synopsis Ida lives on a ship with her crew of five men. In Marseille her attention is caught by the secretive male world of the French Foreign Legion and she decides to follow its traces across the Mediterranean. As Ida and her crew sail via Corsica to the historical headquarters of the Legion in Algeria, boundaries and certainties blur while life at sea produces a special kind of mutual understanding.
Director
Helena Wittmann
Producer
Karsten Krause, Frank Scheuffele, Christophe Bouffil-Cantoni, Birgit Glombitza
Screenwriter
Helena Wittmann
Distributor
The Cinema Guild
Production Co
If You Hold a Stone, Tita B Productions, Fuenferfilm
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 14, 2023, Limited
Runtime
1h 46m
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