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Reel Review: @flowerthemovie
For the past 3 years, I have had the opportunity to attend the Tribeca Film Festival viewing some of the most entertaining films including world premieres. From Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fabulous take in Maggie in 2015 to 2016’s premiere of the Academy Award winning O.J: Made In America, the festival is never short of memorable films and documentaries. This year, my Tribeca experience opened up with Max Winkler’s latest film, Flower. This film sets the bar high for this year’s slate of films and is a powerful coming of age story that looks at the joys and sorrows of reckless adolescence.
Flower stars Zoey Deutch (Before I Fall) as Erica, a teenage girl who is on a mission for love and validation from her father, who is currently in prison. How does she do this? Through her oral sex talents and a scheme with friends to extort money from men around the town as a form to eventually bail her father out of jail. However, at home things are changing as her mother’s boyfriend and his over-weight son Luke move in after Luke’s stint in rehab.  Erica has to deal and navigate through all the personal changes and eventually make choices that could change her life.
What I immediately loved about Flower is that Winkler does not shy away from letting the audience know where he is taking his film from the opening moments. The film opens with the camera panning towards a car and as we get closer, it promptly shifts to Erica giving a police officer a blowjob in his cruiser. That initial moment can check some out of the film but I was in and curious about the journey Winkler was about to take the audience on.Â
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