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Flowers (Loreak)

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Flowers (Loreak)

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Directors Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga have crafted an intimate and beautifully filmed drama about loss and healing, though it occasionally suffers from a slow pace.

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Walter V. Addiego San Francisco Chronicle Filmmakers Jon Gorao and Jos Mari Goenaga get good performances throughout, and the images are handsome. But the pace is slow to a point that wearies. Rated: 2/4 Jan 14, 2016 Full Review Soren Andersen Seattle Times Beautifully filmed, it operates from the premise, voiced by one of the characters, that "people don't die until we forget them." Rated: 3/4 Dec 31, 2015 Full Review Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Works mightily at mood but never satisfactorily threads its melancholy strands together. Nov 19, 2015 Full Review Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly Flowers is a pretty movie with a sweet sentiment at its core, but Garaño, Goenaga and co-writer Aitor Arregi's character development is ultimately anemic. Jul 2, 2019 Full Review Hannah Brown Jerusalem Post This slow-paced movie is not for everyone, but it's a wonderful antidote to those inane Hollywood rom-coms, where nothing feels real and everything always works out perfectly. Mar 2, 2016 Full Review Sebastian Zavala Kahn Cinencuentro Lily Tomlin is excellent as Elle. [Full Review in spanish] Feb 12, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member una pelicula que no me gusto,no le encontre sentido 5/10 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Too meandering to make me care, and the Spanish dubbing was extremely distracting. Why on earth wasn't it screened in its original language?! (viewing at a film festival in Singapore) Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member so well made and leaves Hollywood far in junkyard. Natural performance with such a touching and beatiful story elegantly told Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member For most people, flowers represent bliss and melancholy. This film touches those stems of human existence. The three women are connected through flowers. Each are brought together through flowers. How frail a life when it ends. Yet, while we live, as fresh flowers enrich a day so shall we enrich each other. I highly recommend this film in a language I never heard before. The difference in culture just makes the very deeply human feelings all the more real. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Writer/director team Jose Mari Goenaga and Jon Garano economically convey mood and character dynamics with the barest of gestures and facial expressions. The elliptic storytelling extends to the camerawork, often we watch characters from skewed angles or see half a face obscured by shadows. At first the muted tone and the dour characters may have you thinking you're in for a bit of an exercise in fortitude, but slowly you are drawn in. The disconnect between the characters in fact connects the audience to them. This is such an engrossing rumination on the complexities of human relationships and how people live with loss. It's also another fine example of how European cinema offers such rich roles for women over a certain age. This is the Spanish entry to the Best Foreign Language Film race at the Oscars this year. The emotional impact sort of sneaks up on you and moves you in a rather surprising way. It is a quite excellent film that's worth keeping an eye out for. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Silent, sad, deep, sincere. A film that can talk about life and death under the spiritual angle and also wicked. The wise old woman of the film speaks: death only exists when someone fails to remember the people. But how to remember someone who died if we can barely remember who exist? Life happens and passes before our eyes. A simple gesture like sending flowers can completely change the way we see life. Beautiful film! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Jose-Mari Goenaga