A Flower in the Mouth (2022) [N/A]
Release Date:
February 16, 2022
Original Title:
Une fleur à la bouche
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Flaneur Films
Jeonju International Film Festival
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
Les films du Worso
Poulet-Malassis
Production Countries:
France | Germany | South Korea
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 67
A Flower in the Mouth is a film diptych about time running out and how to live through the days that remain. The first act, filmed as an observational documentary in the world’s largest flower market, follows millions of bouquets transiting through a cavernous refrigerated hangar to be sold at auction, an industrial process at once both beautiful and terrifying. The film transitions to fiction in a second act freely adapted from a Pirandello play. A man with a flower-shaped tumour on his lip accosts a traveller in an all-night café. Their seemingly mundane conversation becomes a metaphysical monologue as the man, feeling death approach, clings to life by scrupulously observing its activity, watching reality in every detail, as if to fill the gap between himself and the rest of the world.