WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY YANNIS VESLEMES (The Field Guide to Evil, Norway)
WORLD PREMIERE – ESCAPE FROM TRIBECA SECTION
“My background as a composer has taught me that narrative cinema sometimes suffers from the dominance of storytelling. Music can be abstract, non-liner, noisy yet emotional. If you feel confident to approach dramaturgy with a musical compass on hand, magical things may happen, happy accidents, cracks in the banality of fiction.”
– Yannis Veslemes, Director
In SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE, three brothers build an unusual time-machine in order to bring their long-dead mother back to life. When their delusional father comes into the picture, the experiments go awry, and they descend into a psychedelic hellscape where the past and present fuse in a comedic yet deeply disturbing exploration of grief.
With its acid-trip-like imagery and overall surreal vibe, writer/director Yannis Veslemes’s audacious examination of grief harkens back to an older era of Euro genre cinema, tapping into the unhinged world-building seen in the films of visionaries like Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet and visually bursting alive with a Mario-Bava-esque color palette. It’s truly one of a kind.
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL | SCREENING SCHEDULE
Sunday, 6/9 @ 6:15 p.m – Village East Cinema, Theater 6
Monday, 6/10 @ 6:15 p.m – AMC 19th Street, Theater 5
Tuesday, 6/11 @ 11:00 a.m – AMC 19th Street, Theater 4 (P&I)
Wednesday @ 6/12, 8:45 p.m – AMC 19th Street, Theater 3
STARRING Panos Papadopoulos, Julio Giorgos Katsis, Aris Balis, Sandra Abuelghanam Sarafanova, Alexia Kaltsiki, Dominique Pinon
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos (The Lobster, Knock at the Cabin), Ant Timpson (Come to Daddy), Andreas Zoupanos Kritikos, Alexis Perrin (Vesper)
EDITOR: Yorgos Mavropsaridis (Poor Things)
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Christos Karamanis
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction, Greek New Wave
86 min / Greece/France / 2024 / French, Greek
