“She Loved Blossoms More” is a film difficult to categorise as to genre and the best I can suggest is “psychedelic horror”. Consider it a combination of “The Wizard of Oz”, the blue pill from “The Matrix”, “Back to the Future”, “Mad Max” and the LSD trip in New Orleans in “Easy Rider”.
The plot has three young brothers Hedgehog, Japan and Dummy attempting to bring back their mother through a time machine, their mother’s wardrobe.
After two years of experimentation that results in fried turtles, pigs and a variety of other animals the best success is transporting a chicken to the past which is somewhat successful as the chicken is returned headless but alive with glowing orifice where its head was. Science can be cruel for sure. Perhaps that is one message of the film.
The boys’ drug dealer, Samantha, arrives supplying a variety of snortable psychedelic powder launching a spacey and debaucherous trip as if atmospheric weirdness wasn’t already present through spectacular set design, costuming, special effects and creative camera work. It is a wild hallucinogenic sex explosion and the boys’ scientific experimentation launches into cruelty and savagery when Hedgehog pushes Samantha into the time machine, locks the door and presses the on button. The barbarity of scientific experimentation a message of the film.
Samantha returns somewhat like the chicken, but her head has been split in two and she has three eyes and a glowing gap in her head.
The bizarre and creative visualization is a cinematographic a masterpiece and the plot suffers from cooked psychedelics and falters in coherence.
I can’t say I have ever watched such a film as it combines a number of themes of the films described above. Where it fails is a logical development of plot. It is a feast of visualization, special effects and costumes sort of a “Grand Bouffe” of cinema on the verge of gorging itself.
Watch the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/embed/I143IrvQHKs
Directed by Yannis Veslemes.
RKS 2024 Film Rating 90/100.
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