Locarno Title ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ to Shoot with ‘Dogtooth’s’ Angeliki Papoulia, ‘Holy Motors’ Star Denis Lavant (EXCLUSIVE)
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSounding a note of hope for the 20 titles selected for Locarno Festival’s highest-profile competition, The Films After Tomorrow, Helena Wittmann’s entry, the sensuous sea odyssey “Human Flowers of Flesh,” is scheduled to go into production on Aug. 12, with “Dogtooth” actor Angeliki Papoulia and “Holy Motors’” Denis Lavant attached to star.The news gains particular force coming on the eve of a reimagined Locarno Festival in Switzerland, Europe’s biggest mid-summer movie event, whose Films After Tomorrow strand aims to prize and promote movies — 10 Swiss, 10 international — whose production was foreclosed or halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as was the case with Wittmann’s second feature.