{"product_id":"rice-the-flower-thief","title":"The Flower Thief","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eFormat \u003cstrong\u003eDVD Interzone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginal format \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e16mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eYear \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1950-1982\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eLanguage(s) \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eArtist(s) \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRon Rice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor(s)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Wheeler Winston Dixon, Barry Clark, Marry Batten, Ron Rice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBooklet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 56 pages (French, English)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eRunning time\u003cstrong\u003e 113 min\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFilms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE MEXICAN FOOTAGE\u003c\/strong\u003e (1950) 8'30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE FLOWER THIEF \u003c\/strong\u003e(1960) 58'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSENSELESS\u003c\/strong\u003e (1962) 24'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHUMLUM\u003c\/strong\u003e (1964) 23'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOUTTAKES - THE QUEEN OF SHEBA MEETS THE ATOM MAN \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1982) 6'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescription\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Flower Thief\u003c\/em\u003e, filmed by and starring New York and San Francisco beats, is a collection of improvisations. Ron Rice, the film's creator, attempted to ignore or break all the rules of cinematic art in making this film. Its form is the picaresque novel, a genre dating from the Middle Ages in which a rogue lives through a series of loosely connected adventures that reveal his personality and his relationship with the world around him. Don Quixote in the Renaissance, Huckleberry Finn in the 19th century, and Charlie Chaplin's tramp in our time are picaresque heroes. Ron Rice's contribution to this tradition is his flower thief, a harmless, mad homosexual. Wandering the streets of San Francisco with his teddy bear, indifferent to authority, stealing flowers because he loves them, and experiencing the most basic human emotions, he is also The Noble Savage.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e P. Adams Sitney, \u003cem\u003eFilm Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\"I continue to think that \u003cem\u003eThe Flower Thief\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important modern films, a magnificent absurd poem. The bullfight in negative is a fantastic shot, as is the sequence with the beatnicks on the beach in Acapulco, or the train theft episode, or the shot of the Virgin of Guadalupe surrounded by light, or the oil wells at night. It's beautiful and wild.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eJonas Mekas\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ron Rice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56788938162507,"sku":"SQ0245454","price":19.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/3034\/9643\/files\/processed_DVD--The_Flower_Thief.webp?v=1773411937","url":"https:\/\/re-voir.com\/en\/products\/rice-the-flower-thief","provider":"Re:Voir","version":"1.0","type":"link"}