JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

Expanded Cinema

Human Flowers of Flesh

Helena WITTMANN

Germany, France 2022 107min DCP Color Fiction 12Asian Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
270	2023. 04. 29	19:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 5	HKE12	Ticket Wish
373	2023. 04. 30	20:00	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 9	HKE12	Ticket Wish
855	2023. 05. 05	20:00	CGV Jeonjugosa 8	HKE12	Ticket Wish

Overview

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, she decides to follow its traces across the Mediterranean. They are set to sail to the historical headquarters of the Legion in Algeria.

Review

Ida, the captain, and her five sailors are the protagonists of this particular adventure that takes place on beaches and boats. Human Flowers of Flesh draws on historical and cinematographic myths to tell us a story in which drift is the way that the film, and the behavior of its characters, take over. Despite the fact that a simple description of its plot could make us believe that we are facing a typical adventure movie, even adventures from other times, where the Foreign Legion was a possible destination to escape from everyday life, Human Flowers of Flesh offers us another kind of movie. A film where life seems to take place in other spaces and times, where the modern world and its worries seem to have been far away, just as a possible place of return. (Sung MOON)

CREDIT

DirectorHelena WITTMANN
ProducerFrank SCHEUFFELE, Karsten KRAUSE, Julia CÖLLEN
ScreenplayHelena WITTMANN
CinematographyHelena WITTMANN

Production DesignAnna OSTBY
MusicNika SON
EditorHelena WITTMANN
SoundNika BREITHAUPT

CastAngeliki PAPOULIA, Ferhat MOUHALI, Gustavo DE MATTOS JAHN, Ingo MARTENS, Mauro SOARES, Vladimir VULEVIC, Steffen DANEK, Nina VILLANOVA, Denis LAVANT

FILM SOURCE

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DIRECTOR

Helena WITTMANN

Born in 1982, Neuss, Germany. Her first feature film DRIFT (2017) was shown internationally at film festivals including the Venice IFF, IFFR, and New Directors/New Films Festival.

🌏nature/landscape🤝friendship🧐experiment