Blossoms of Fire

Name: Blossoms of Fire
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 20, 2006
Duration: 75 min
Rating: 58

2006

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New Yorker Films | Release Date: January 20, 2006

Summary: Blossoms of Fire is a dazzling, whirling dance of a film that celebrates the extraordinary lives of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. (New Yorker Films)

Director: Ellen Osborne and Maureen Gosling

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 75 min

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Peter Rainer

Blossoms of Fire fulfills the first criterion of any good ethnographic study: It's about an inherently interesting subject. Read full review

Marrit Ingman

A bright, amiable chronicle of the vivid lives of the women of Juchitán. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

It's easy to be seduced by this film's warmhearted, if slightly utopian, vision. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

While the subject is potentially fascinating, Gosling's unfocused, sluggish film is a case study in missed opportunities. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Results at times seem as much p.c. travelogue as serious docu inquiry. Read full review

Phyllis Fong

Backed by folk songs and swirling shots of fiestas and markets, Blossoms is feel-good tourism but by its own bounds only woolly anthropology. Read full review

Phil Hall

Obviously, this is one subject which may not seem to require the attention of documentary filmmakers. Read full review

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VeronicaB.

Jan 25, 2007

This is a great movie, that shows the reality of life in Southern Mexico. Perhaps for people with low knowledge of Mexican culture wouldn't appreciate what the movie has to offer. I enjoyed every bit of it - the music, the way they present the 'plazas', the great culture this This is a great movie, that shows the reality of life in Southern Mexico. Perhaps for people with low knowledge of Mexican culture wouldn't appreciate what the movie has to offer. I enjoyed every bit of it - the music, the way they present the 'plazas', the great culture this people have; their love and respect for their culture and traditions.… Expand

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