La Flor

Name: La Flor
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Romance
Released: August 2, 2019
Duration: 808 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Elisa Carricajo, Esteban Bigliardi, Esteban Lamothe, Eugenia Alonso, Federico Buso

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: August 2, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Elisa Carricajo, Esteban Bigliardi, Esteban Lamothe, Eugenia Alonso, Federico Buso, Laura Paredes, Luciana Acuña, Pablo Seijo, Pilar Gamboa, Valeria Correa

Summary: A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. The director himself shows up at the start to preview the six episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes.A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. The director himself shows up at the start to preview the six episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction—all of them without endings—to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a wildly entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits.… Expand

Director: Mariano Llinás

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Romance, Musical

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 808 min

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The Film Stage Leonardo Goi

Aug 1, 2019

La Flor shares Extraordinary Stories’ ambitious scope and structure, but takes them to a whole new level of resolutely rebellious narrative freedom. Read full review

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Keith Uhlich

Aug 1, 2019

The arc of La Flor’s first three episodes, in particular, suggests someone continually working and reworking the film of their dreams, adjusting the tone, the approach, the narrative twists and the emotional intensity on the fly. Read full review

Justin Chang

Aug 5, 2019

La Flor, as sweeping and addictive as much of it is, doesn’t have the structural predictability that a more conventional serialized narrative does. It’s too freewheeling, too experimental, too eager to carve out fresh avenues of meaning. At a time when duration is no guarantee of depth, it’s the definition of a must-see. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Jul 30, 2019

Some petals are admittedly prettier or more fragrant than others (and the film has serious stem problems), but there’s forbidding beauty in the sheer ambition itself. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Jul 31, 2019

Everything about La Flor — that financiers agreed to bankroll it, Llinás and his team were able to complete it, and festivals, distributors, and exhibitors are now screening it — is a marvel. Anyone with a disdain for the studio system’s endless parade of franchises (and with 14 hours) to spare would do well to give it their undivided attention. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Aug 1, 2019

La Flor is perhaps more fun to think about than to sit through, though there are some exquisitely beautiful sequences. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Aug 2, 2019

Watching La Flor is like being on the last legs of a road trip with a group of people you’ve grown increasingly alienated from. Look at the happy artists, they’re having fun playing with themselves; good for them, can I go home now? Read full review

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