Born in Flames

Name: Born in Flames
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
Released: November 9, 1983
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 75

1983

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First Run Features | Release Date: November 9, 1983 | Not Rated

Summary: 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 ofThe 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. [First Run Features]… Expand

Director: Lizzie Borden

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Beautifully made, courageously edited, and swift-moving, this challenging, provocative film is a work that is both humanist and revolutionary. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Like her namesake, the filmmaker Lizzie Borden took an ax...to cinema conventions and tidy political resolutions in her 1983 landmark Born in Flames. Read full review

David Sterritt

Borden artfully combines social and political commentary with story elements, character development, and enough ideological savvy to poke intelligent fun at dogmas of every stripe. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Borden charts the explosive coming together of the women as they forge their own liberation, handling her story with audacity and making even the driest argument crackle with humour, while the more poignant moments burn with a fierce white heat. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

It fuses documentary and dramatic sequences into a free-form narrative that exists somewhere between essay film, political manifesto, and exploitation. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Made piecemeal over a number of years and first released in 1983, this 90-minute comic fantasy has lost little of its radical edge—in contrast to Borden’s subsequent Working Girls, which accommodated itself to a wider audience. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

It is impertinent, audacious, abounding in fresh ideas, considerably untraditional ideas. On the other hand, it is disjointed, with no real characters, preachy, the script unsufficiently developed and the acting often amateurish. Read full review

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