Man of Flowers Reviews

Charles Bremer (Norman Kaye) is a sexually repressed, middle-aged artist who sublimates his desires into paintings of flowers and impassioned organ playing. He hires artist's model Lisa (Alyson Best) for $100 a week to come to his house and take off her clothes for him on a makeshift altar while he plays "The Love Duet" from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor," after which he rushes to church and vents his emotions on a pipe organ. Charles finally goes to a psychiatrist, who, in the tradition of movie shrinks, is kinkier than his patients. An interesting, sometimes funny film about loneliness and emotional isolation, MAN OF FLOWERS boasts a literate script, a lush, sensual texture and, best of all, a silent cameo by German director Werner Herzog as Bremer's domineering father.