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Wildflowers

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I saw this film on the big screen during the Santa Barbara Film Festival. From the film's opening, it was both captivating and visually breathtaking. The plot is not necessarily fast paced, but it isn't slow by any means. The character development is very strong, the script and performances by Daryl Hannah and Clea Duvall ( in particular) were both stunning. The setting is aboslutely lovely. I tend to be a very discriminating, and sometimes critical moviegoer, so i was shocked to read the scathing view review above. I loved this movie. It is a tender and touching tale that I look forward to owning and watching many more times.

Cali is a 17 year old girl that lives on a house boat with her hippie father, she searching for her mother who left soon after she was born. She discovers that subeam the towns most ecentric person is her mother. Along the way to finding this discovery she deals with her friends trying to discourage her from finding her mother, and her need to live on her own. I really liked this movie its vey artistic, and remnsent of hippies living on communes. This is a movie to see on a rainy day.The setting is so gorgeus you'll want to pick up and move.

WILDFLOWERS, a film by Melissa Painter, shown Sunday evening 7 August 2000 at the Wine Country Film Festival in Sonoma, California, made me feel like living life more fully.

WILDFLOWERS is the story of a 17 year old child of the 60s (she was raised first on a commune in Olema, then by her dad on a Sausalito houseboat) who in 1985 befriends an expressive, artistic older woman: one she sees as being everything she would want to be; one whom she gradually suspects is the long-lost mother she grew up without. Clea DuVall plays Cally, Daryl Hannah plays Sabine. The director/screenwriter drew on her own experience - she was born in 1968 too - as well as interviews and research. Filmed in Marin and North Beach.

so pretty, and clea's performance is extrodinary. felt like a summer afternoon day at the beach. watch it!

Wildflowers is about 17-year-old Cally's search for her past. She was raised on a commune by hippies in the 1960's (the movie is set in 1985), and now she lives with her father. She's been told little about her mother, except that she had to leave Cally and her father because she got in trouble for her political activities. Cally becomes convinced that the woman she meets in San Francisco (Daryl Hannah) is her mother, and she tries to become friends with the woman. As she learns more about the woman and her father, she also begins to understand herself better. The story is simple and straight forward, and the style and acting are extremely low-key. Although the movie is not great by any standards, it is fairly likeable. Look fast for a quick appearance by Blue's Traveller. Overall, a very average small-budget film.

I just saw this movie last night and was captivated enough to stay up until midnight on a weekday. It was visually beautiful, so much so that it's almost a fantasy. People live on boats, have gorgeous furniture and willowy, gauzy clothing, hang out in coffee shops, read poems in an eclectic bookstore and don't seem to have real jobs, responsibilities or school. Clea DuVall is excellent but as a 17 year-old you would think her dad might be more worried when she stays out all night and doesn't come home for days. No one else mentioned that Eric Roberts (who is gorgeous and about 20+yrs. older than her) has an intimate encounter w/her - did this bother anyone else but me? This is one of those movies you get lost in because it's so wonderfully unrealistic and you dream about life being that carefree and beautiful...then the dog barks, the phone rings, your kids start fighting, etc. Why can't we all sleep on the ocean beach, hike in beautiful deserted pastures in CA, sleep with gorgeous older men, have a fascinating hip mom to get drunk with? It kind of left me unsatisfied with my existence, but that's another story...

beautiful photography, moving lyric film. Clea Duvall is tremendous.

This movie is one of the few done about the Counterculture of the 60's that gives an accurate feeling both of some of the people of that era nearly 20 years later and of the era itself. Highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand something of the 60's.

This film gave me the feeling that it could have been both good and interesting if it had beendone by someone with a pulse. The acting talent is there and the story seemed like it could have been interesting, but this film is slow and boring. Each scene seems to go on endlessly. Each plot point is unendingly belabored. There are numerous inexplicable scenes which only serve to muddle up the story line further. By the time the film moves from one plot point to another you've nearly forgotten what came before. This film left me scratching my head trying to figure out what happened. Completely forgettable. Forget it.

Okay, this movie was slow, even boring at times, and the sex scenes were kind of pathetic, but if you are into cinematography, believe me, "Wildflowers" would have won an Oscar for it. If you are a Daryl Hannah fan, don't worry, she's prettier than ever. And if you are curious about Clea DuVall, well, she's proven all her potentials for stardom in this movie. So, 2 stars go to the Bay Area beauties, 1 to Daryl and 1 to Clea.