DIE BLÜTE DES EINKLANGS

French writer Jeanne explores the woodlands in Japan's Nara region, searching for a mysterious plant that only blossoms every 997 years. There she meets a taciturn ranger, a blind herbal medicine woman – and confronts her own past. Naomi Kawase, who started out as a documentary filmmaker and whose nature-focused fiction films won several awards in Cannes, plays a new variation of her favorite motifs like the woods and blooming plants, with floating, hypnotic images. A passionate Juliette Binoche, a charismatic Masatoshi Nagase and a completely transformed Mari Natsuki all make sure that the human drama is no less moving than the gorgeous images of nature are.