Vc andrews petals on the wind movie7/6/2023 The irony of trying to make something legitimate out of Andrews’s stilted dialogue and smutty melodrama - and on basic cable - is not lost on the director, whose resume includes devastating critically lauded indies Blue Car and The Dead Girl. Petals director Karen Moncrieff decided quickly to make like Scandal and pitch Andrews’s twisted sudser like she would a Greek drama: big and heightened and sold on emotional realism. “It is high-level trashtasticness,” Daly promises. If some complained that Flowers took too tasteful an approach in realizing (or failing to) the incestuous highs that made Andrews’s novels required under-the-covers reading for girls in the early ‘80s, the story’s next chapter, which premieres tonight at 9 on the network, proves both more adult and more faithfully lurid. “That’s a boob.” She snapped pictures several hours ago when production on the network’s Flowers in the Attic sequel was, disappointingly, closed to visitors as the movie’s damaged heroine Cathy and her abusive dancer boyfriend Julien made not-so-sweet love in his dingy New York loft. “This is a thigh,” she says, swiping through tight shots of a good-looking young couple in flagrante on her iPhone. The first thing Lifetime’s vice president of original movies Lisa Hamilton Daly shows me when I arrive to the set of Petals on the Wind is skin.
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