Man of Flowers (1983)

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• Anthony L

  
  Utterly mesmerising and hauntingly beautiful, Man of Flowers joins the long list of underrated/overlooked great Australian films. It's quite funny too. I admit, the only reason I watched it is because it starred Werner Herzog, who doesn't actually have any dialogue - but… More
  Utterly mesmerising and hauntingly beautiful, Man of Flowers joins the long list of underrated/overlooked great Australian films. It's quite funny too. I admit, the only reason I watched it is because it starred Werner Herzog, who doesn't actually have any dialogue - but this is made up for the fact that Norman Kaye is just as captivating, both in his performance and in his voice. I was transfixed and thoroughly entertained throughout. Paul Cox is a director I'm going to seek out - how this film has been overlooked is a mystery to me!

• Mark A

  
  Man of Flowers is a strange little film, a product of the eighties, that shows a little skin and hands out a great deal of woo-woo mysticism in the process. The characters are drawn pretty thinly, the problems that each character faces are somewhat formulaic, and the print is dated.… More
  Man of Flowers is a strange little film, a product of the eighties, that shows a little skin and hands out a great deal of woo-woo mysticism in the process. The characters are drawn pretty thinly, the problems that each character faces are somewhat formulaic, and the print is dated. But there are a few bright spots. Norman Kaye, plays the eccentric, shy, Charles Bremer with an aristocratic reserve that is almost (almost) believable. Lisa (Alyson Best) is a beautiful young woman torn between this gentle soul and an abusive boyfriend, David (Chris Haywood), who is a tortured, has-been artist with several problems of his own. And Jane (Sarah Walker) is a girlfriend who offers Lisa relationship advice, but has designs on Lisa for herself. What little we know of what led Charles to this is told through flash-backs that appear as dreams, a device that is not entirely effective. It was entertaining, just not very.