Harrison's Flowers (2000)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Elie Chouraqui

Escritores:

Isabel Ellsen (book)
Elie Chouraqui (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

24 enero 2001 (France)

Género:

Drama | Romance | Guerra

Frase comercial:

Sometimes love is the only proof you need.

Plot:

When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him.

Plot Keywords:

Yugoslavia | Greenhouse | Ethnic Cleansing | Mirror | Children Killed

Premios:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Realistic and by most part very accurate display of urban warfare

Reparto

Andie MacDowell	...	Sarah Lloyd
Elias Koteas	...	Yeager Pollack
Brendan Gleeson	...	Marc Stevenson
Adrien Brody	...	Kyle Morris
David Strathairn	...	Harrison Lloyd
Alun Armstrong	...	Samuel Brubeck
Caroline Goodall	...	Johanna Pollack
Diane Baker	...	Mary Francis
Quinn Shephard	...	Margaux Lloyd
Marie Trintignant	...	Cathy
Christian Charmetant	...	Jeff
Gerard Butler	...	Chris Kumac, photojournalist
Scott Anton	...	Cesar Lloyd (as Scott Michael Anton)
Christopher Clarke	...	David
Dragan Antonic	...	Chetnik

También conocida como:

Les fleurs d'Harrison (France) (subtitle)
Las flores de Harrison (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong war violence and gruesome images, pervasive language and brief drug use.

Duración:

130 min | USA:121 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés | Serbio

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Finland:K-15 | Iceland:16 | Australia:MA (cable rating) | Canada:14A | France:U | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Czech Republic

Compañía:

7 Films Cinéma

Errores:

Anacronismos: An advertisement for Windows 2000 can be seen in the window of a computer store as Sarah leaves an office building in New York in 1991.

Citas:

Kyle Morris: You have to get away from here. No one knows what this country is.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

Realistic and by most part very accurate display of urban warfare

As someone who had lived through this war [I live in Osijek, town frequently mentioned in the movie, only 30 kilometers from Vukovar] and have seen the atrocities first hand, I'll start by commenting the realistic value. To my surprise, the Harrison flowers turned out to be very accurate in portraying what it was like. The details, such as locations, army uniforms and equipment, names, places, scenes and the geographic and historic facts, are pretty much all spot-on true. There are few barely noticeable mistakes, but it'd be nitpicking on my behalf even mentioning them. So, to anyone interested in seeing what the end 20th centuries warfare really looks like, I highly recommend it. It's miles ahead of Holywoods cheezy Rambo-style war movies and by it's ruthless realism it really is a visual kick in the gut.

As for the plot - the love story that serves as a guideline seems pretty much unnecessary and hard to believe. It has occurred to me that it'd be far more believable if Andie MacDowel was the photojournalist lost in the war-zone and her husband goes to get her out, not the other way around. So, those looking for a warm love tale, this will hardly be the best choice. Those interested in seeing the insanity of the easter-Europe 1991. war conflict, the cruelty and danger of modern photojournalism - I can hardly think of anything better than this.