Today I'm headed down Philly yo, for an environmental council dinner. A big hackin' deal with navy suits and rubber chicken, I'm sure. But before I leave, I'm whippin' out a press release about another fantabulous film in our festival. We just found out the director is coming from POLAND to attend. It's not our first international director - we've had guests from India and the Netherlands, but it's always cool to play United Nations.
So, this guy has a film called The Fantastic Flowershop, or if you know Polish you'd say Fantastyczny sklep z kwiatami. Uh-huh.
Director Pawel Partyka worked with fine artist Frances Oesterfelt to create puppets and animate them and make a story about florist's wire coming to life and transforming into dancers who tango and belly-dance and have all kinds of love drama.
What I thought was fantastic about its inspiration is that Frances is a fine artist/dentist who experimented with blown glass and wire objects and then came up with the puppets for the film. Puppets and animations are like way more popular in Europe than in the good ol' USA where we are fed very literal, flat stories in the cineplexes. Awesome!
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