Cinema
Wild Flowers
Les fleurs sauvages
Jean-Pierre Lefebvre · 1982
Synopsis
Simone, seventy years old, leaves her residence in the city to spend a week in the countryside with her daughter Michèle, a potter. Michèle lives with her second husband, Pierre, who teaches photography, and two children, Claudia and Éric, each born of one of her marriages. Mother and daughter love each other, but their relationship is strained: Michèle rejects the roles of wife and mother that Simone took on. The five characters share the house and try to talk to each other across the generation gap.
Context
The shoot lasted fifteen days, on 16 mm, with Marthe Nadeau as Simone, Michèle Magny as her daughter and Pierre Curzi as the husband. The music is by Raoul Duguay and Jean Corriveau. Black-and-white sequences show what the characters think, or what would happen if they dared to speak to one another. It is its author's seventeenth feature film, about ten of whose films have been invited to Cannes.
Who it is for
Two and a half hours, five characters, almost no action; slowness is both the method and the subject.
Prizes and reception
International Critics' Prize at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, in 1982.
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