Science fiction horror is full of creativity and style but not much else

She loved the flowers more is a surreal film that is as weird as it is interesting. The writer-director Yannis Veslemes is capable of capturing a feeling of strangeness in what is essentially an exploration of sorrow. And yet, there is a disconnection that the film cannot really overcome. The horror of science fiction is certainly elegant, with colors ranging from red and green to distorted images – partly and something – strange in their grain. But for all that the film leans in its oddity, it holds us to the length of the arm in terms of its characters, which are at best drawn and their emotional journey.

The film follows three brothers (Panos Papadopoulos, Julio Giorgos Katsis, Aris Balis) who has been working on a travel machine for years in the hope of bringing their mother (Alexia Kaltsiki) of death. They use his closet, always full of his clothes and perfumes, to try this feat, although they often fail despite the fact of getting closer to success. Their work is mainly hampered by their impatient father (Dominique Pinon), who finances the project, and gives them a few more days to bring it together.

The brothers want the machine to work more than anything, but rather than a time in time, everything they send in the closet seems to go to another dimension. Things become even more reinforced (and a little embarrassing) when Samantha (Sandra Abuelghanam), which is pushed into the closet, is divided in two, half here and half in another dimension, forced to put a nonsense that it cannot control. The characters repeat that their mother “loved flowers more than her children“, Although it becomes a tired recutation that does not offer much real development or explanation.

She loved more flowers take too long to reach her most interesting parts

The film is tripping and will instantly recall concepts that are not entirely different from the media like Alice in Wonderland. Acid -shaped visuals are what brings the film until the end, although it is really in its last 15 minutes that things become really interesting. The accumulation to this is long and arduous. The brothers engage with each other, but there is an underlying current of self that the characters cannot completely shake.

Everything is in a bad mood and, when what happens to Samantha shakes things up, the reaction to that is silent and revealing. Just as the characters are more obsessed with the fact of making their machine function, therefore, is the film taken in being this surreal delirium that he forgets to focus on many other people outside this. I felt detached from the story of the characters. When their father finally arrives, he provides a frightening understanding to previous questions, but it seems too little, too late.

The exploration of sorrow by Veslemes is the one that never ends, stopping the characters in their traces, unable to move on while their focusing is shrinking to make their machine work. The imagery that accompanies this exploration is convincing, disturbing and overflowing with a feeling of hallucinatory strangeness that accentuates the story and what it also lacks.

If anything, She loved the flowers more It is not bizarre enough, holding to explore what is beyond the temperature machine, which is the most convincing aspect of the film. He takes his time to arrive where he wants to go, moving slowly and hoping that we are on the way. But, just as his characters feel when they turned away from their time machine, the wait around going somewhere that is worth it is, in this case, too much burden to bear.