Éric Baudelaire
Festivals: Berlin | A Flower in the Mouth (Éric Baudelaire, South Korea/France/Germany)
By Deragh Campbell | 03/21/2022 | CS90, Festivals, From Cinema Scope Magazine
Screening in this year’s Berlinale Forum, Éric Baudelaire's unique take on Luigi Pirandello’s 1923 short play The Man with the Flower in His Mouth assumes the form of a diptych: the first part is an observational documentary of Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer, the world’s largest flower market in the Netherlands; the second, a fictional, more explicit adaptation of Pirandello’s text, a conversation taking place over an evening in a Paris bar.
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