A Flower in the Mouth
1 h 07, 2021︎︎︎ PRESS KIT • TEASER
A diptych film 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 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 monolog as the man, feeling death upon him, clings to life by scrupulously observing its activity, tracking reality in every detail, as if to fill the gap between himself and the rest of the world.
With
Oxmo Puccino (the man)
Dali Benssalah (the client)
Dali Benssalah (the client)
A film by
Éric Baudelaire
Adapted from
The Man with a Flower in His Mouth
by Luigi Pirandello (1923)
by Luigi Pirandello (1923)
Screenplay
Anne-Louise Trividic
Éric Baudelaire
Éric Baudelaire
Image
Claire Mathon
Sound
Éric Lesachet
Philippe Welsh
Philippe Welsh
Art Direction
Roy Genty
Editing
Claire Atherton
Graphic Design
Pierre-François Letué
Script
Christelle Meaux
Production Manager
Damien Grégoire
Stage Manager
Mathieu Guinois
Production
Poulet-Malassis Films・Éric Baudelaire
Les Films du Worso・Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon, Hilaire Perthuis, Solène Caron
Flaneur Films・Zsuzsanna Kiràly
Les Films du Worso・Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon, Hilaire Perthuis, Solène Caron
Flaneur Films・Zsuzsanna Kiràly
With support from
JEONJU Cinema Project 2021
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Fondation Antoine de Galbert
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
Proarti
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Fondation Antoine de Galbert
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
Proarti
DCP
1:1.85
5.1 sound
French with English subtitles
5.1 sound
French with English subtitles
FESTIVALS
Berlinale Forum
JEONJU International Film Festival
Marienbad Film Festival
L'Alternativa Barcelona
Lo schermo dell’arte
Black Canvas FCC
Viennale
DocLisboa
ZINEBI Festival Internacional de Bilbao
JEONJU International Film Festival
Marienbad Film Festival
L'Alternativa Barcelona
Lo schermo dell’arte
Black Canvas FCC
Viennale
DocLisboa
ZINEBI Festival Internacional de Bilbao
REVIEWS
Berlin: A Flower in the Mouth, Deragh Campbell, Cinema Scope 90, 2022
Éric Baudelaire’s A Flower in the Mouth, Anthony Hawley, BOMB, Jun 2022
Infinity Mirrors: realities of fiction and fictive renderings of real, Arindam Sen, Débordements, May 2022
Forum 2022, Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa, Feb 2022
MORE RESOURCES
Fleurs
du Mal: Éric Baudelaire’s Death Passed My Way, Gloria Hasnay, MOUSSE, Dec
2021
Une Fleur à la bouche, Les Films du Worso
Poulet-Malassis Films
c/o Éric Baudelaire studio
41 bis quai de la Loire, Atelier 304
75019 Paris FRANCE
info @ pouletmalassis . com