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. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | Ilha das Flores |
| Year | 1989 |
| Country | Brazil |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Jorge Furtado |
| Runtime | 13 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 8.1/10 (226 votes) |
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🎬 MovieFinder's Take
A brutal and brilliant documentary short that dissects capitalist logic with surgical precision. In just thirteen minutes, Jorge Furtado crafts a universal parable about inequality, where the chain "soil—supermarket—landfill" becomes a metaphor for human destiny.
What lingers after viewing is a bitter aftertaste and a haunting question: if a tomato and a human end up in the same final place, what truly separates us? The film offers no easy answers but forces a reckoning with the very idea of progress. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Jorge Furtado
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Sarcastic voice-over, sharp editing, the stark contrast of a bright vegetable against a gray landfill.
🎭 Cast
Paulo José
Narrator
Júlia Barth
Filha de Dona Anete
Luciane Azevedo
Ana Luiza Nunes
Ciça Reckziegel
Dona Anete
Igor Costa
Filho de Dona Anete
Douglas Trainini
Marido de Dona Anete
Irene Schmidt
Compradora
Gosei Kitajima
Sr. Suzuki 1
Takehiro Suzuki
Sr. Suzuki 2
Antônio da Silva
O dono do porco
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