She Loved Blossoms More is a surreal film that is as equally weird as can be interesting. Writer-director Yannis Veslemes is adept at capturing a feeling of strangeness in what is essentially an exploration of grief. And yet there is a disconnect the film can’t quite overcome. The sci-fi horror is certainly stylish, with hues ranging from red and green to distorted images — part memory and something else — eerie in their graininess. But for all that the film leans into its weirdness, it holds us at arm’s length in terms of its characters, who are thinly drawn at best, and their emotional journey.

The film follows three brothers (Panos Papadopoulos, Julio Giorgos Katsis, Aris Balis) who have been working on a time machine for years in the hopes to bring their mother (Alexia Kaltsiki) bac

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