1996 · drama · liberation · women
Flame
Directed by Ingrid Sinclair1h 28m1996
The 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people is going against the white suppressors. As the war reaches the most distant villages as well the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names: Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought...
Our read: Flame (1996) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · liberation · women entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / liberation, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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