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A Flower in the Mouth (2022)
Directed by Eric Baudelaire
Drama · 1h 07m
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.
Cast
Oxmo Puccino
Dali Benssalah
Crew
- Director
- Eric Baudelaire
- Screenplay
- Eric Baudelaire, Anne-Louise Trividic
- Director of Photography
- Claire Mathon
- Editor
- Claire Atherton
- Producer
- Eric Baudelaire, Giovanni Carmine
Details
- Original title
- Une fleur à la bouche
- Release date
- 2022-02-16
- Runtime
- 1h 07m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- South Korea, Germany, France
- Production
- Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Jeonju International Film Festival, Les films du Worso, Poulet-Malassis, Flaneur Films