Human Flowers of Flesh

Filmmaker in Person! / Milwaukee Premiere!

With director Helena Wittman in person. A woman navigates with an all-male crew along the route of the French Foreign Legion from Marseille to Sidi-Bel-Abbes via Calvi on a contemporary odyssey that is at once political and sensuous. Human Flowers of Flesh features a cameo from Denis Lavant, in tribute to Claire Denis’s thematically evoked Beau travail, yet Wittmann’s film moves to its own meditative, differently embodied rhythms.

(Helena Wittmann, Germany and France, English, French, German Portuguese, Serbo-Croation w/ Eng subs, 106min, 2023, DCP)

Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres and the German Program at UWM