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La flor (Teil 3)

Mariano Llinás
Argentinien 2018
320 min
V'18

Spanning three parts, eight acts, six stories, and nearly fourteen hours of running time (with several intermissions), Mariano Llinás’s epic, globe-trotting, and absurdly ambitious LA FLOR traverses a dizzying array of cinematic genres – from B-movie horror kitsch to pop-music melodrama to 1970’s spy thriller to Canadian mountie film to cine-essay to Renoir remake to 19th century period piece. In an age of binge-watching and serial narrative, Llinás’s film offers a witty riposte that is at once a compulsively watchable storybook, an incisive commentary on contemporary narrative logics, and a time machine that returns us to a bygone era of classical genre conventions and a fast and furious dream-factory mode of production.
Hopscotching a wealth of styles, idioms, and tones (tragic and comic, musical and action-packed, color and black-and-white) each of the film’s six episodes enlists the same four charismatic actresses – Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes – in a succession of new characters and personas that wander through new and never-ending plot-lines. These stories make up the film’s sprawling structure – helpfully mapped out by the director at the film’s outset – whose capacity to generate new stories (and stories-within-stories) seems almost inexhaustible. And yet, even with its daunting size and sense of grandiosity, the film remains a wryly comic and deliriously entertaining affair, rife with strange deviations, delirious poetic interludes, and self-deprecating references to the film’s own chaotic production, ten years in the making. Its literary grandeur recalls both the florid architecture of pulp novels and the cosmic meta-narratives of the great Argentine writers Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. But Llinás’s universe is entirely, unmistakably his own, and it’s a purely cinematic one: a vast tapestry of tall tales, subplots, in-jokes, and non-sequiturs, stretching out to infinity. (Leo Goldsmith)

In the presence of Mariano Llinás.

LA FLOR - Part 1:  2. 11., 13.30 h Metro, Historischer Saal 
LA FLOR - Part 2:  3. 11., 11 h Metro, Historischer Saal 

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