Born in Flames
"Funny, gutsy, inspiring!" - MS Magazine
The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling and still-relevant classic is a comic fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman's Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women - across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference - emerges to blow the system apart.
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Interesting but not entertaining... - 213468280576
The credits ran under the worst music I have ever heard. Adele Bertei, yikes! Then the music kept coming back! That I watched this despite that music is a tribute to my deep and abiding Feminism :)
The idea of a feminist counter-revolution against a late 20th century American Socialist revolutionary government as a movie is totally amazing. Despite the cover art there are no futuristic sets or costuming… no sets or costuming of any sort. This is real people and locations shot in a Seventies documentary style. Some of these people can act and some can’t but the ideas and vision are interesting and intelligent.
Seriously 70's style cinematography; seriously 60's style direction and editing. Pure amateur/gorilla film making. Lots of un-looped footage of people folding laundry and eating lunch, wrapping chicken meat in plastic. This is essentially a semi-narrative polemic, cool for the ideas and for the footage of period clothes and characters.
This is a movie for serious film buffs, alternate reality fans, social history buffs, but not for anyone looking for a conventional thriller or any sort of regular movie entertainment.
Very interesting as a document. Brave. Fascinating… imaginative. Not entertaining.
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The interview with the Director is in .pdf format. Borden seems really down to earth. She says the primitive look of the film is mainly intentional.
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Interesting but not entertaining... - 213468280576
The credits ran under the worst music I have ever heard. Adele Bertei, yikes! Then the music kept coming back! That I watched this despite that music is a tribute to my deep and abiding Feminism :)
The idea of a feminist counter-revolution against a ...