
A Flower in the Mouth
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Directed by Eric Baudelaire
The story
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 & crew
Oxmo PuccinoThe man with a flower
Dali BenssalahThe customerExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Eric Baudelaire
- Screenplay
- Anne-Louise Trividic
- Editor
- Claire Atherton
- Director of Photography
- Claire Mathon
- Producer
- Eric Baudelaire
- Director
- Eric Baudelaire
- Producer
- Giovanni Carmine
