A Flower in the Mouth
A film in two parts: a first act filmed as an observational documentary in the world's largest flower market, followed by a fictional second act about a man, afflicted by a terminal illness, encountering a stranger in a train station bar. A radical reflection about time running out and what remains to be done, adapted from a play by Pirandello.
| Director | Éric Baudelaire |
| Actor | Sofia Bohdanowicz |
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Éric Baudelaire's A Flower in the Mouth is an ingenious cinematic diptych inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s 1923 play The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, exploring grand themes of life, death, and perception. The first half is a documentary set in the vast Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer, the world’s largest flower market in the Netherlands, capturing the intricate choreography of workers, industrial machines, and fleeting organic matter. The second half shifts to a Parisian bar, where a fictional conversation unfolds between a man with a terminal illness and a stranded customer, weaving poetic meditations on mortality and memory. Through its juxtaposition of the documentary's visual spectacle and the bar's intimate theatricality, the film interrogates the boundaries of cinema and theatre, materiality and sacred symbols, inviting viewers to warmly hold these oppositions in a delicate balance.
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Filmmaker
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Français
1h07
Language: Français
Subtitles: Français -
English
1h07
Language: English
Subtitles: English
- Année 2022
- Pays France, Germany
- Durée 67
- Producteur Poulet-Malassis, Les Films du Worso, Jeonju International Film Festival
- Langue French, Dutch
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court A reflection on illness, both literal and metaphorical: the certainty of death as a reality that compels us to rethink our relationship with the world.
- Ordre 2
Éric Baudelaire's A Flower in the Mouth is an ingenious cinematic diptych inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s 1923 play The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, exploring grand themes of life, death, and perception. The first half is a documentary set in the vast Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer, the world’s largest flower market in the Netherlands, capturing the intricate choreography of workers, industrial machines, and fleeting organic matter. The second half shifts to a Parisian bar, where a fictional conversation unfolds between a man with a terminal illness and a stranded customer, weaving poetic meditations on mortality and memory. Through its juxtaposition of the documentary's visual spectacle and the bar's intimate theatricality, the film interrogates the boundaries of cinema and theatre, materiality and sacred symbols, inviting viewers to warmly hold these oppositions in a delicate balance.
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Filmmaker
-
Français
Duration: 1h07Language: Français
Subtitles: Français1h07 -
English
Duration: 1h07Language: English
Subtitles: English1h07
- Année 2022
- Pays France, Germany
- Durée 67
- Producteur Poulet-Malassis, Les Films du Worso, Jeonju International Film Festival
- Langue French, Dutch
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court A reflection on illness, both literal and metaphorical: the certainty of death as a reality that compels us to rethink our relationship with the world.
- Ordre 2
