with Angeliki Papoulia, Ferhat Mouhali, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Ingo Martens, Mauro Soares, Vladimir Vulevic, Steffen Danek, Nina Villanova, Denis Lavant
Produced by Frank Scheuffele, Karsten Kraus & Julia Cöllen (Fünferfilm), Christophe Bouffil & Fred Prémel (Tita Productions)
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
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106 min –
English, French, Portuguese, Tamazight, Serbo-Croatian –
Subtitles: English, French
Germany, France –
2022
Locarno Film Festival 2022 - Competition
New York Film Festival 2022 - Currents
Festival de Sevilla 2022 - Las Nuevas Olas
Human Flowers of Flesh
A film byHelena Wittmann
with Angeliki Papoulia, Ferhat Mouhali, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Ingo Martens, Mauro Soares, Vladimir Vulevic, Steffen Danek, Nina Villanova, Denis Lavant
Produced by Frank Scheuffele, Karsten Kraus & Julia Cöllen (Fünferfilm), Christophe Bouffil & Fred Prémel (Tita Productions)
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
