{"identifier":"PCO-Man_6311368125112","browse_author":"Paul Cox (Director), Jane Ballantyne (Producer), Paul Cox (Producer), Paul Cox Illumination Films (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video)), John Clarke (Screenplay by) and Paul Cox (Screenplay by)","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350896550,"description":"Paul Cox's breakthrough film, premiering at Cannes Film Festival, and playing in festivals worldwide, and considered a masterpiece of Australian cinema. Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye), a reclusive collector of paintings, sculptures and other rnore delicate works of art, such as rare flowers and naughty postcards, each Wednesday takes Lisa (Alyson Best), an artists' model, to his sumptuous house and pays her handsomely to do a striptease to the \u2018Love Duet' from \u2018Donnizetti's Lucia Di Lammermoor'. He then leaves quickly and plays the organ alone in the church across the road from his house. Charles we learn, has not always been rich and is currently in therapy; a part of which is to write, daily, a letter to his dead mother describing in euphemistic terms his growing obsession with his \u201clittle flower\u201d, Lisa the model. Her boyfriend, David (Chris Haywood), a failed painter, once successful and famous, but now addicted to cocaine., is convinced that daily he is making conceptual breakthroughs with his swift ugly canvasses. He treats Lisa as a sexual convenience and a source of money to serve his addiction. Lisa finally leaves him for a no less savoury arrangement with Jane, her lesbian fellow art student. It is obvious from Charles's dream-life that his mother loved him, but in the name of love she smothered him, and sent him against his deeper wishes. During the course of the film, we slowly learn the source of Charle's little sexual ritual; its effect on the ambitions of David and his eventual complex fate. \n Man of Flowers is both erotic and richly amusing, with a tragic after-glow. The essence of the story is the confrontation between modern art and traditional art; or between modern love and traditional love; or even between modern life and traditional life. The old world meets the new world and only the old, traditional world has any substance. Director: Paul Cox Producer: Jane Ballantyne, Paul Cox Writer: Paul Cox, Bob Ellis Cinematographer: Yuri Sokol Cast: Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood, Werner Herzog, Julia Blake Born in Holland and settled in Melbourne since the mid-\u201860s, Paul Cox wass an auteur of international acclaim, having received numerous international awards. He was one of the most prolific makers of films in Australia, with numerous features, shorts and documentaries to his name. He is the recipient of many special tributes and retrospectives at film festivals across the world, including a major retrospective at the Lincoln Centre in New York in 1992. His films of the early and mid \u201880s \u2013 Lonely Hearts (1981), Man of Flowers (1983), and My First Wife (1984) \u2013 were highly acclaimed both locally and internationally. Man of Flowers premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, and went on to win Best Film at the 1984 Valladolid Film Festival as well as Best Foreign Film at the 1991 Warsaw Film Festival. \n Cactus premiered in Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986 and Vincent won the Jury Prize at the 1988 Istanbul International Filmdays. \n A Woman's Tale won the Grand Prix at the 1992 International Flanders Film Festival in Ghent and Exile screened in competition at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival. More recently, Cox's highly acclaimed feature Innocence (2000) won massive audience and critical acclaim, including Best Film and the People's Choice Award at the 2000 Montreal World Film Festival; and 5 Australian IF awards including Best Film, Independent Filmmaker of the Year for Paul Cox, and Best Actress for Julia Blake. Cox\u2019s career continued, with features such as Human Touch (2004) and Salvation (2008). He died in Melbourne in 2016. Language - English","videoId":6311368125112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_filmmedia","title":"Man of Flowers","xml_source":"bvl_filmmedia_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"PCO-Man","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/a98f6883-619a-4306-a28f-4c659b7b2ff4/b6d9d3ca-071f-467b-8c0c-d4d4d7eeb642/1280x720/match/image.jpg","facets":"video , Video ,","contenttypeorder":3,"date_of_publication":1983,"publisher":"Paul Cox Illumination Films","productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"PCO-Man","facet":["video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Paul Cox~Jane Ballantyne~Paul Cox~Paul Cox Illumination Films~John Clarke~Paul Cox"}