Event

La Flor

Part 1, 203 min Fri Sep 06: 7.00pm
Part 1, 203 min Sat Sep 07: 3.00pm
Part 2, 188 min Sat Sep 07: 7.00pm
Part 3, 205 min Sun Sep 08: 3.00pm
Part 4, 207 min Sun Sep 08: 7.00pm
Special 14-hour-movie pricing:

$18 General Admission
$14 NWFF Member

This film will be presented in four parts, each a little under 3.5 hours in length. A ticket purchased to one part grants entry to all parts. Only Part 1 will screen more than once.

Mariano Llinás
Argentina
2018
14h 28m

About
A decade in the making, Mariano Llináss 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 metafictionall of them without endingsto 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.

Synopsis courtesy of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

A dazzling collision of stories and genres, flashbacks and voiceovers, games and riddles an astonishment extraordinary sweeping and addictive the definition of a must-see. Justin Chang, LA Times

The mere fact of its existence is cause for amazement, but even more astonishing is the impression that it is just the tip of an icebergthat it could keep going, a never-ending film. Dennis Lim, Film Comment