"The Flowers of Silence", burns out

The scientific desire to treat homosexuality as a curable disease gave rise to various methods, one of which, particularly delusional and cruel, was devised by the Austrian physiologist Eugen Steinach at the beginning of the 20th century. It involved nothing less than replacing the homosexual's testicles with others stamped 100% pure heterosexual origin. Will Seefried's film suggests that the method was so commonly used that in this case, it is a young English doctor, Philipp, who asks his lover, a budding writer-poet, in a flower-filled cottage to save him by performing this delicate operation on him. The transplant was made possible because the two men killed a passing drunk. The drunk's son, Louis, married and a father, ends up passing by and throws himself into Owen's arms. The story is told in a series of flashbacks (but with what product?).

Wrapped in a pretty photograph worthy of a poster puzzle style, a vague evocation of James Ivory's cinema from the Maurice period but in a horrific reinterpretation, Lilies Not for Me (renamed by the French release, Les Fleurs du silence ) is still based on an incomprehensible premise. We really wonder why the director found it relevant to re-evoking this "technique" of conversion under the scalpel by having it endorsed by a gay man wracked by self-hatred, since historically, all these methods have always been