La Flor

Directed by MARIANO LLINÁS

Starring ELISA CARRICAJO VALERIA CORREA PILAR GAMBOA

Released 13 SEPTEMBER

Any conversational mention of Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Llinás’ second narrative feature on the festival circuit over the last 12 months will have inevitably made swift reference to its length. So let’s get this out of the way up top: runs at 808 minutes., despite where it’s likely to end up playing, is about as far removed from any notion of the arthouse cinematic endurance test as it’s possible to get. You won’t find any 17 minute, fixed-camera shots of cows in a field. is a genre movie. Six genre movies, even. It plays in three parts, each with a couple of intervals. Thirteen-and-a-half hours breeze by.