Human Flowers of Flesh
60th New York Film Festival
September 30 - October 16, 2022
Fascinated by the male rituals and camaraderie of a crew of French Foreign Legionnaires, Ida (Angeliki Papoulia) follows them on a journey across the Mediterranean, which director and cinematographer Helena Wittmann depicts as an enigmatic reconfiguration of space and time, connecting the past and present, body and spirit, earth and water.
Q&As with Helena Wittmann on Oct. 10 & 11
Director and cinematographer Helena Wittmann creates distinctive and unexpected cinematic experiences, dissolving narratives into environments that move to the inexpressible contours of human communication and physicality. In her second feature, following the revelatory, bifurcated Drift, she limns the interior world of Ida (Angeliki Papoulia) by focusing on the external, sensual landscape surrounding her. Fascinated by the male rituals and camaraderie of a crew of French Foreign Legionnaires, Ida follows them on a journey across the Mediterranean, which Wittmann depicts as an enigmatic reconfiguration of space and time, connecting the past and present, body and spirit, earth and water—including, in one remarkable moment, a complete submersion into the sea’s mysterious depths. Human Flowers of Flesh features a cameo from Denis Lavant, in tribute to Claire Denis’s thematically evoked Beau travail, yet Wittmann’s film moves to its own meditative, differently embodied rhythms. A Cinema Guild release.
Special thanks to German Film Office.
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