Flies

Is Flies worth watching?

Yes — Flies earns a 74% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

Critics have embraced this quiet, black-and-white two-hander as a return to form for Eimbcke, praising its disarming emotional honesty and the understated lead performances even as a few note the slim, familiar premise keeps it from greatness.

Celluloid Critics Consensus

Critics (82%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (74%).

What is Flies about?

In Mexico City, a solitary middle-aged woman named Olga rents a spare room to a man whose wife is hospitalized across the street, hoping to cover her own upcoming surgery. When he has to leave town, he quietly leaves his nine-year-old son in her care, and the boy's presence slowly cracks open a life she had sealed shut against grief.