A Flower in the Mouth

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Oxmo Puccino

The man with a flower

Age : 49 | Popularity : 3%

Dali Benssalah

The customer

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Eric Baudelaire
Production	Producer	Giovanni Carmine Eric Baudelaire
	Co-Producer	Zsuzsanna Kiràly
Writing	Screenplay	Eric Baudelaire Anne-Louise Trividic
Editing	Editor	Claire Atherton
Camera	Director of Photography	Claire Mathon
Sound	Sound	Eric Lesachet
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