Human Flowers of Flesh

Human Flowers of Flesh

Helena Wittmann

SCREENER

2022

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106min

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Germany, France

with

Angeliki Papoulia, Vladimir Vulevic, Ferhat Mouhali

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. By the promising director of multi-awarded Drift, a spellbinding and sensory cruise across the Mediterranean in the footsteps of Claire Denis› Beau Travail to grasp the very essence of the natural principles at work in human interactions.

A towering, teetering and exquisitely-wrought puzzle box

LITTLE WHITE LIES

A meditative gem

INDIEWIRE

Wittmann’s daring second feature is a gorgeously immersive, fluid work of cinema

SIGHT AND SOUND

A post-humanistic film instilled with utopian sensuality

KINO ZEIT

Locarno Film Festival 2022 - Competition New York Film Festival 2022 - Currents Festival de Sevilla 2022 - Las Nuevas Olas