Human Flowers of Flesh

Released Apr 14, 2023

1h 46m

Drama

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83%

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12 Reviews

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

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.

Apr 13, 2023

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Clayton Dillard

Slant Magazine

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.

Rated: 1.5/4

Apr 10, 2023

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

A towering, teetering and exquisitely-wrought puzzle box whose every shot invites the viewer to play a game of cool subtextual interpretation.

Aug 9, 2022

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Alexander Miller

Film Inquiry

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.

Jun 25, 2023

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Soham Gadre

Film Inquiry

Hypnotizing, it is an inventive and enchanting movie about the sea.

Apr 22, 2023

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Dustin Chang

Floating World

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.

Apr 13, 2023

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James L

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.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/21/24

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Helena Wittmann

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Angeliki Papoulia

Ida

Vladimir Vulevic

Vlad

Mauro Soares

Mauro

Gustavo de Mattos

Jahn

Ferhat Mouhali

Farouk

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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
Screenwriter: Helena Wittmann
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Production Co: Fuenferfilm, Tita B Productions, If You Hold a Stone
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 14, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 46m

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