Born in Flames
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
Sombre, kinetic, measured sci-fi / feminist, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
Our read · Born in Flames (1983) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · feminist · independent entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Born in Flames
What watching it is actually like.
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