Human Flowers of Flesh is a 2022 French-German drama film directed by Helena Wittmann [de], starring Angeliki Papoulia, Ferhat Mouhali, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Ingo Martens, Mauro Soares, Vladimir Vulevic, Steffen Danek, Nina Villanova and Denis Lavant.
[1] Ida is the owner of a sailing yacht with an international crew consisting of five men: Vlad from Croatia, Farouk from Algeria, Falco from Germany, Mauro from Portugal, and Carlos from Brasil.
Together with her crew, she embarks on a journey across the Mediterranean Sea towards the Algerian city of Sidi Bel Abbès, the former headquarters of the French Foreign Legion until 1962.
"[1] James Lattimer of Sight & Sound called the film a "gorgeously immersive, fluid work of cinema.
"[3] Neil Young of Screen Daily wrote that Wittman "struggles to assemble promising fragments into a satisfactory whole" and called the film a "textbook big-screen example of ambition far outrunning execution.