Wildflowers (film)
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Director Melissa Painter Country United States | 5.6/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date May 15, 1999 (1999-05-15) (Cannes)September 1, 2000 (2000-09-01) (United States) Tagline Sometimes, a chance meeting can be a chance to change your life.... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wildflowers 1999 official trailer
Wildflowers is a 1999 drama film directed by Melissa Painter. It stars Clea DuVall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana and Eric Roberts. It features former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass reading some of his own poetry. Filmed in San Francisco and Marin County, California, it was given a limited theatrical release and received a mixed reception from critics.
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Plot
Clea DuVall stars as Cally, a 17-year-old who has been raised by her father, not knowing her mother. When Cally meets a mysterious woman called Sabine, she becomes obsessed with her.
Distribution
Wildflowers premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. It was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 1, 2000. In the US it grossed $5,365.
Cast
Reception
At the 2000 SXSW Film Festival, Melissa Painter won the SXSW Competition Award for best Narrative Feature. Review website Rotten Tomatoes gave Wildflowers a "rotten" rating of 50% based on six reviews. Metacritic gave it a "generally negative" rating of 28% based on seven reviews. In a review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott called the film dreamy and impressionistic, but ultimately empty. He praised Clea DuVall for her "intuitive grasp of emotion". Writing for The Austin Chronicle, Barry Johnson called the film poignant. He praised Painter for her "lyrical, intimate direction" and DuVall for her "impressive, nuanced performance". Christopher Null called the film bizarre and incomprehensible, "utterly hopeless as cinema".
References
Wildflowers (film) WikipediaWildflowers (film) IMDb Wildflowers (film) themoviedb.org