For decades, Australian Holly Ringland walked through life with a dream, to become a writer. And although he looked for all the ways to do it, selling all his possessions at the age of 29 to go to do a master's degree in creative literature at the University of Manchester, in England, he never dared to try the simplest way: sit in front of a blank paper and tell a story.
When she finally did, back in 2014, what emerged were the first lines of Alice Hart's The Lost Flowers, which was published four years later, making her a celebrated author. The novel has been translated into 30 languages and the author will see how the seven-episode miniseries based on her first book hits screens around the world this Friday on Amazon Prime.
Filmed entirely in Australia, the first chapter begins by showing the complicated childhood of the protagonist, played when she is nine years old by Alyla Brown, who adores her mother (Tilda Cobham-Harvey) and has every reason to fear her father (Charlie Vickers). . Everything changes for her the day a fire ends the lives of her parents in confusing circumstances, and she must go live with her grandmother, her Jane, played by Sigourney Weaver, who is also an executive producer of the film. series. Jane is a tough woman, who lives with her partner Twig (Leah Purcell) and earns a living growing wild flowers on a huge farm where other women her own age also work, known as "the flowers". .
Although initially the themes are child abuse and family relationships, later the focus changes and focuses on Alicia as an adult, played by Alycia Debnam-Carey, whom we remember from her time on Fear the Walking Dead, and their love story. with a complex man named Dylan, played by the Mexican Sebastián Zurita.
As the title indicates, the other protagonists of the story are flowers, since Ringland used his vast knowledge of wild flowers to include them in the story, and also describe the region of Australia in which he grew up, so it was essential that the series be recorded there with a majority of local talent. However, all attention will be on Weaver.
The actress composes a memorable character, as capable of confronting a man who has treated a woman badly as she is of showing her most vulnerable side in her relationship with the girl who unexpectedly joins her life. Weaver, who premiered in Spain in June Paul Schrader's The Master Gardener, will return to our movie screens the same day the series debuts with Phyllis Nagy's We Are All Jane.
