Music Box Films Sets a March 1 DVD Release Date for FLOWERS

FLOWERS is an intensely poetic meditation on love, pain and memory, all expressed through the

metaphor of cut flowers, a typically simple gesture here charged with emotion Directed and co-written by Spain’s Jose Mari Goenaga and Jon Garaño, its themes are reflected through the unexpected reverberations of a tragedy that impacts three women very differently, while examining the all-too-human feelings associated with romance, loss, remembrance and missed connections.

Ane (Nagore Aranburu) lives a quietly unfulfilled life, trapped in a seemingly loveless marriage, until she suddenly begins to receive bouquets of flowers anonymously, once a week. Meanwhile, Tere (Itziar Aizpuru) wants nothing more than a grandchild, but her only son Beñat (Josean Bengoetxea) and his wife Lourdes (Itziar Ituño) have other plans. A sudden, tragic event jolts all of their lives into a new reality, and flowers start to appear anonymously once again, but this time, instead of passion, they represent an emotional memory.

“We live surrounded by flowers. Flowers at weddings, and at funerals, flowers on the table, flowers on walls, in a garden, or by the road. It’s as if we’re constantly turning to their image to say what often can’t be expressed in words. Few images serve to convey such a large variety of things. Depending on the context in which they’re given, the meaning of these flowers can change dramatically. And depending upon who sees them, or who receives them, the meaning can also differ,” offer filmmakers Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga. “FLOWERS arose from this ambiguity and these possible meanings. We found it interesting to explore how something like a bunch of flowers, at first so stripped of meaning, can become the clearest of messages.”
 
The second film directed by the Garaño-Goenaga duo (following 2010’s For 80 Days), FLOWERS is Spain’s submission to the Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards. FLOWERS also marks the first-ever movie submitted in the Euskara (Basque) language, a beautiful tongue indigenous to the Basque region of Northern Spain and Southwestern France.

Following its recent theatrical rollout to the U.S.’s top markets and international film festival circuit where it won the Cine Latino Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival, Music Box Films Home Entertainment will release FLOWERS on DVD and Video On Demand (VOD) for the first time on March 1, 2016 (prebook Jan. 26, 2016). Filled with bonus materials which include a making-of featurette, a filmmaker Q&A from the films Los Angeles premiere and a film press conference from San Sebastian International Film Festival, the DVD carries a suggested retail price of $29.95. 

 
FLOWERS -- Synopsis:
Ane (Nagore Aranburu) lives a quiet unfulfilled life, trapped in a seemingly loveless marriage, until she suddenly starts to receive bouquets of flowers anonymously, once a week. Meanwhile, Tere (Itziar Aizpuru) wants nothing more than a grandchild, but her only son Beñat (Josean Bengoetxea) and his wife Lourdes (Itziar Ituño) have other plans. A sudden, tragic event jolts all of their lives into a new reality, and flowers start to appear anonymously once again, but this time, instead of passion, they represent an emotional memory.

 
FLOWERS

Music Box Films Home Entertainment
DVD RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2016  
SLP-  DVD $29.95  

Directors: Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga
Cast: Nagore Aranburu, Itziar Ituño, Itziar Aizpuru, Josean Bengoetxea, Egoitz Lasa, Ane Gabarain, Jose Ramon Soroiz, Jox Berasategi  
Running Time: 99 minutes   
Format: 2.35:1 widescreen  
Sound Format: Dolby Digital 5.1  
Rating: NR  
Country: Spain  
Language: Euskara (Basque) with English subtitles        

Bonus Features

-The Making of Flowers

-Filmmakers Q&A from Los Angeles premiere

-Press conference from San Sebastian Film Festival