La Flor Episode 2
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5h 44m
Leaving October 1
Directed by Mariano Llinás | 344 mins | 2018
An epic mosaic that serves as a paean to the pleasures of narrative, wrought in three parts, six episodes, and 14 ½ hours, Llinás’s La Flor is a simultaneously gargantuan and winningly humble shapeshifter film, with each of its sections—save for a prologue starring Llinás himself—reuniting the same quartet of actresses in new narrative trappings, traipsing from a mummy movie, to an actors-in-revolt metanarrative, to a black-and-white remake of Renoir’s A Day in the Country.
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