Isle of Flowers

About Isle of Flowers

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children.

Isle of Flowers is a 1989 documentary film directed by Jorge Furtado. Its themes are money, poverty, capitalism, and pig.

Paulo José stars as Narrator, Júlia Barth as Filha de Dona Anete, Luciane Azevedo as Ana Luiza Nunes, and Ciça Reckziegel as Dona Anete. Released in September 1989, it runs 13 minutes.

The screenplay is by Jorge Furtado.

There Will Be Blood, Capernaum, and Inside Job make useful companions to Isle of Flowers. TMDB voters put it at 8.2 out of 10 across 243 votes.