Little Joe

Little Joe

Alice is a plant breeder who has created a unique flower named after her boy: touched and spoken to, the red hybrid releases a perfume that makes people happy. Alice,racked with guilt for neglecting her son, but also wrestling with an unconscious yearning to escape from the burden of motherhood, offers the red flower to Joe. Yet, something seems a bit off. Playing with the mechanisms of a horror film in the vein of Frankenstein, an out-and-out chiller that reflects on the nature of human feelings and the disheartening lack of understanding towards ourselves, others and life itself.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Jessica Hausner
Script: Jessica Hausner, Géraldine Bajard
Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht
Editing: Karina Ressler
Sound: Erik Mischijev, Matz Müller, Malcolm Cromie
Actors: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, David Wilmot, Phénix Brossard, Sebastian Hülk
Production: Coop99, The Bureau, Essential Films
Producers: Bruno Wagner, Bertrand Faivre, Philippe Bober, Martin Gschlacht, Jessica Hausner, Gerardine O’Flynn
Costumes: Tanja Hausner
Sets: Katharina Wöppermann
Make Up: Heiko Schmidt, Kerstin Gaecklein
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 105´
Distribution in Greece: One From the Heart
Contact: Premier, hello@premiercomms.com
Awards/Distinctions: Best Actress – Cannes FF 2019

Jessica Hausner

Austrian Jessica Hausner studied Directing in Vienna, where she shot the award-winning short films Flora and Inter-View. Her debut feature film Lovely Rita premiered at the Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, where she returned with her sophomore feature Hotel. Lourdes, her following film, was selected in the competition section at the Venice Film Festival and was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize. Amour Fou was Hausner’s third film to be presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, while Little Joe marks Jessica Hausner’s English-language feature debut.

Filmography

1995 Flora (short)
2001 Lovely Rita
2004 Hotel
2009 Lourdes
2014 Amour Fou
2019 Little Joe