Flowers (Loreak)

2015

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77%

26 Reviews

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Directors Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga have crafted an intimate and beautifully filmed drama about loss and healing, though it occasionally suffers from a slow pace.

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una pelicula que no me gusto,no le encontre sentido 5/10

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Too meandering to make me care, and the Spanish dubbing was extremely distracting. Why on earth wasn't it screened in its original language?! (viewing at a film festival in Singapore)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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so well made and leaves Hollywood far in junkyard. Natural performance with such a touching and beatiful story elegantly told

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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For most people, flowers represent bliss and melancholy. This film touches those stems of human existence. The three women are connected through flowers. Each are brought together through flowers. How frail a life when it ends. Yet, while we live, as fresh flowers enrich a day so shall we enrich each other. I highly recommend this film in a language I never heard before. The difference in culture just makes the very deeply human feelings all the more real.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Writer/director team Jose Mari Goenaga and Jon Garano economically convey mood and character dynamics with the barest of gestures and facial expressions. The elliptic storytelling extends to the camerawork, often we watch characters from skewed angles or see half a face obscured by shadows. At first the muted tone and the dour characters may have you thinking you're in for a bit of an exercise in fortitude, but slowly you are drawn in. The disconnect between the characters in fact connects the audience to them. This is such an engrossing rumination on the complexities of human relationships and how people live with loss. It's also another fine example of how European cinema offers such rich roles for women over a certain age. This is the Spanish entry to the Best Foreign Language Film race at the Oscars this year. The emotional impact sort of sneaks up on you and moves you in a rather surprising way. It is a quite excellent film that's worth keeping an eye out for.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Silent, sad, deep, sincere. A film that can talk about life and death under the spiritual angle and also wicked. The wise old woman of the film speaks: death only exists when someone fails to remember the people. But how to remember someone who died if we can barely remember who exist? Life happens and passes before our eyes. A simple gesture like sending flowers can completely change the way we see life. Beautiful film!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Jose-Mari Goenaga

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Nagore Aranburu

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Itziar Ituño

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Walter V. Addiego

San Francisco Chronicle

Filmmakers Jon Gorao and Jos Mari Goenaga get good performances throughout, and the images are handsome. But the pace is slow to a point that wearies.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 14, 2016

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Soren Andersen

Seattle Times

Beautifully filmed, it operates from the premise, voiced by one of the characters, that "people don't die until we forget them."

Rated: 3/4

Dec 31, 2015

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Works mightily at mood but never satisfactorily threads its melancholy strands together.

Nov 19, 2015

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Michael J. Casey

Boulder Weekly

Flowers is a pretty movie with a sweet sentiment at its core, but Garaño, Goenaga and co-writer Aitor Arregi's character development is ultimately anemic.

Jul 2, 2019

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Hannah Brown

Jerusalem Post

This slow-paced movie is not for everyone, but it's a wonderful antidote to those inane Hollywood rom-coms, where nothing feels real and everything always works out perfectly.

Mar 2, 2016

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Cinencuentro

Lily Tomlin is excellent as Elle. [Full Review in spanish]

Feb 12, 2016

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Director: Jose-Mari Goenaga