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Dominican Rep. Harrison's Flowers
- Original title
- Harrison's Flowers
- Year
- 2000
- Running time
- 126 min.
- Country
France- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Andie MacDowell
Elias Koteas
Brendan Gleeson
Adrien Brody
David Strathairn
Alun Armstrong
Caroline Goodall
Diane Baker
Quinn Shephard
Marie Trintignant- Christian Charmetant
Gerard Butler- Scott Anton
- Christopher Clarke
- Dragan Antonic
- Marie-Béatrice Bernert
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Balkan Wars. Journalism. Photography. 1990s
- Synopsis
- Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his wife Sarah (also a journalist for Newsweek) refuses to believe that he's dead and goes looking for him. She's helped immensely by the photo-journalists Eric Kyle and Marc Stevenson that she runs into over there; together, they're determined to make it through the chaotic landscape to Vukovar, which is not only the nexus of the war but where she believes Harrison is located. Meanwhile, Harrison's son Cesar is looking after his father's prized greenhouse, keeping hope, and flowers, alive.
- Awards
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2000: San Sebastian Film Festival: Best Cinematography
- Critics' reviews
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"The movie exhibits the usual indifference to the issues involved. Although it was written and directed by Elie Chouraqui, a Frenchman, it is comfortably xenophobic."
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A powerful portrait of modern journalism and the nobility -- and futility -- of chronicling modern war"
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"It's ultimately a losing battle when the audience's lack of interest in eastern Europeans is assumed at the outset."
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"A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war, with battle scenes that have the immediacy and impact of the famed opening sequence of 'Saving Private Ryan.'"
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"Provides powerful drama thanks to its trenchant core story and harrowing re-creation of the brutal chaos of war."
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"What's strong and true in Harrison's Flowers falls victim to what's familiar, melodramatic and false."
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"There's no denying the vividness with which the French cowriter-director Elie Chouraqui has visualized the chaos of Croatia."
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"Leaves us with a heightened appreciation of the bold and personal films made by a number of filmmakers of the former Yugoslavia"
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- 100 My Top 10 Movies from 2000 (13)
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