Human Flowers of Flesh
Helena Wittmann
SCREENER
2022
-106min
-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