Des fleurs pour Harrison

Titre original : Harrison's Flowers

2000
14A
2h 10m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,0/10

6,9 k

MA NOTE

Elias Koteas, Andie MacDowell, and Adrien Brody in Des fleurs pour Harrison (2000)

When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him.

Liretrailer0 min 32 s

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Drama Romance War

Contre toute raison Sarah décide de partir en Bosnie chercher son mari, un reporter de guerre porté disparu. Passé la frontière cette américaine policée se retrouve de l'autre côté du miroir... Tout lireContre toute raison Sarah décide de partir en Bosnie chercher son mari, un reporter de guerre porté disparu. Passé la frontière cette américaine policée se retrouve de l'autre côté du miroir dans un chaos sans lois : Mort, viols ethniques et destructions. [255]Contre toute raison Sarah décide de partir en Bosnie chercher son mari, un reporter de guerre porté disparu. Passé la frontière cette américaine policée se retrouve de l'autre côté du miroir dans un chaos sans lois : Mort, viols ethniques et destructions. [255]

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,0/10

6,9 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 3 victoires et 1 nomination au total

Anecdotes
Croatian city of Vukovar was defended by around 1,800 lightly armed soldiers of the Croatian National Guard (ZNG) and civilian volunteers, against as many as 36,000 JNA (Yugoslav People's Army) soldiers and Serb paramilitaries equipped with heavy artillery.

Gaffes
During the battle, when they are hiding in the dead woman's house, the Serbian/Yugoslav tanks carry the Croatian national flag with a red star.

Citations
Yeager Pollack: There are only two different types of people in this world. Those who have seen the war, and those who haven't.

Autres versions
For the United States version, the film's length was reduced by about 5 minutes; it also features a new score by Cliff Eidelman. All interview footage was cut. As well as a few short shots. The biggest cut is the one which announces the death of Cathy, the French journalist. The ending has a different voice-over. The only addition for the American version is when Sarah first says in the cafe "He's not dead".

Connexions
Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

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Realistic and by most part very accurate display of urban warfare

As someone who had lived through this war [I live in Osijek, town frequently mentioned in the movie, only 30 kilometers from Vukovar] and have seen the atrocities first hand, I'll start by commenting the realistic value. To my surprise, the Harrison flowers turned out to be very accurate in portraying what it was like. The details, such as locations, army uniforms and equipment, names, places, scenes and the geographic and historic facts, are pretty much all spot-on true. There are few barely noticeable mistakes, but it'd be nitpicking on my behalf even mentioning them. So, to anyone interested in seeing what the end 20th centuries warfare really looks like, I highly recommend it. It's miles ahead of Holywoods cheezy Rambo-style war movies and by it's ruthless realism it really is a visual kick in the gut.

As for the plot - the love story that serves as a guideline seems pretty much unnecessary and hard to believe. It has occurred to me that it'd be far more believable if Andie MacDowel was the photojournalist lost in the war-zone and her husband goes to get her out, not the other way around. So, those looking for a warm love tale, this will hardly be the best choice. Those interested in seeing the insanity of the easter-Europe 1991. war conflict, the cruelty and danger of modern photojournalism - I can hardly think of anything better than this.