She Loved Blossoms More
Three brothers are trying to built a time machine in order to bring their late mother back to life in this Greek combination of cosmic horror and scifi.
If Yorgos Lanthimos directed something inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, the result would probably be something like She Loved Blossoms More. This film, from director Yannis Veslemes, is a blend of sci-fi and cosmic horror, in which The Fly meets Re-Animator.
Greek brothers Hegehog (Panos Papadopoulos), Dummy (Julio Katsis) and Paris (Aris Balis), living in isolation in their old home, are building a time machine with the intention of bringing their dead mother (buried in the yard) back among the living. The machine is tested on a pig and a chicken that return from their interplanary trip in a state of grotesque disfigurement.
The three geeks find something else to think about, when one of them brings the charismatic Samantha (Sandra Abuelghanam Safranova) back to the house. Her arsenal of drugs takes the brothers into even more psychedelic states.
In the vein of Lanthimos, Veslemes depicts this preposterous oddness as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Instead of shock value, She Loved Blossoms More is built on an atmosphere of absurdity and sorrow.
Christos Karamanis’ cinematography caresses the house’s worn-down corners and shady garden. The combination of haunted house and laboratory begins to look like a place of magic where everything is possible.
Matti Rämö (translated by Adrian Murtomäki)
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