La Flor: Part III

Mariano Llinás's narrative epic spans international espionage, torch song melodrama and supernatural horror. At 14 hours, it screens in three parts.

"Episode IV: In La Flor’s most self-reflexive chapter, an auteur prolongs work on his never-ending film production to photograph trees and revise his script. The four fed-up actresses, who may or may not be witches, invite the suspicions of a paranormal investigator after the film’s crew go missing.

"Episode V: A near silent, black-and-white dalliance between two city women and two country boys. Based loosely on Jean Renoir’s lovely, lyrical – and famously unfinished – A Day in the Country.

"Episode VI: Shot through a turn-of-the-century haze, four women wander a barren landscape as intertitles, excerpted from a 1900 account of an Englishwoman’s escape from Native Americans, bring La Flor to a close." (New Zealand International Film Festival)

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