Flowers From Another World

Flowers From Another World

1999 · 108 min · ES · 5.0 (19 votes)
Dir. Icíar Bollaín · Starring José Sancho, Luis Tosar, Lissete Mejía, Chete Lera, Marilyn Torres, Elena Irureta · Music Pascal Gaigne
Drama

Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitude... just like Alfonso, Damián and Carmelo, men from the St. Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors' party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of sharing a living.

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A quiet, contemplative film about disparate lives intersecting. It feels like a gentle, melancholic observation of human longing for belonging and security, punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth and shared humanity.

melancholicwistfulbittersweethopefulslow-burnindie dramacharacter-drivenslice-of-lifeimmigrationlonelinessconnectionsurvival
woman director
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