We're excited to announce that we've partnered once again with our friends at Grasshopper Film to bring you a special time-limited opportunity to stream Mariano Llinás's film, La Flor, starting Monday April 27 and running through Sunday May 3.

• For instructions on how to gain access to the streaming site for this film during the April 27 - May 3 time window, please write to hank.okazaki@duke.edu

• Access to future "Stream/Society" streaming opportunities is automatically granted to audience members who sign up for the Screen/Society mailing list

La Flor
(Mariano Llinás, 2018, 14h 28m (3 parts), Argentina, Color, Streaming)

A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. The director himself shows up at the start to preview the six episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction—all of them without endings—to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a wildly entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits. (synopsis courtesy of the Film Society of Lincoln Center)

"The Best Film of the Year! For nearly fourteen hours, this protean magnum opus, held together by an extraordinary quartet of actresses, immerses us in the pleasures of densely detailed fiction." — Melissa Anderson, Artforum

“A love letter to cinema itself. The movie earns its length, and will fully reward anyone willing to take it on.”— Dan Schindel, Hyperallergic

“A labor of love and obsession by the Argentine filmmaker Mariano Llinás… There are touches of the playful, philosophical fantasizing of Raúl Ruiz. A touch of Buñuel. Hints of Borges and Bolaño.”— A.O. Scott, The New York Times

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