Losing a parent is never easy. Trying to bring a deceased parent back to life is even harder. Yet that’s exactly what a trio of brothers attempt to do to their late mother, whose passing has weighed on all of them immensely and put a strain on their relationship with their domineering father. They’ve built an elaborate time machine in hopes of bringing their mother back from the grave, but the machine’s intricacies, along with their dad’s increasingly strange demands, plunge them into a deliriously bad trip, one fueled by body horror and mind-bending imagery. 

European genre filmmaking rarely gets as wonderfully strange as the singular She Loved Blossoms More, executive-produced by Tribeca alum Ant Timpson (Come to Daddy). With its acid-trip-like imagery and overall surreal vibe, writer/director Yannis Veslemes’s audacious examination of grief harkens back to an older era of Euro genre cinema, tapping into the unhinged world-building seen in the films of visionaries like Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet and visually bursting alive with a Mario-Bava-esque color palette. It’s truly one of a kind.––Matt Barone

She Loved Blossoms More will be preceded by the short The Cost of Flesh.

Yannis Veslemes