La Flor

Monumental masterpiece in two episodes: a B-film about a scary mummy and a musical drama mixed with a real mystery.

Some time in the 1980s, in the Argentine pampas, four female spies have to successfully complete ‘Operation Hercules’. In the morning, a life-and-death confrontation awaits them – but until then we crisscross the world, taking in tangents and prequels. A narrative masterpiece.

It starts with a brilliant exercise in self-parodying metafiction and evolves into something completely different. Followed by a remake of Jean Renoir’s Partie de campagne and the only story that starts in the middle and has an ending: the 19th-century diary of a woman kidnapped for years by Indians. An addictive viewing experience.