Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
BORN IN FLAMES
Synopsis
Ten years after a social-democratic cultural revolution in the US, Adelaide Norris, the Black radical founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed. In response, a feminist insurgency—a coalition of women across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference—emerges to blow the System apart.
Synopsis
Ten years after a social-democratic cultural revolution in the US, Adelaide Norris, the Black radical founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed. In response, a feminist insurgency—a coalition of women across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference—emerges to blow the System apart.
Our take
Lizzie Borden’s incendiary work of feminist provocation and grungy, science-fiction futurism is charged with the energy of revolution. Born in Flames is both a vital time capsule of 1980s pre-gentrification New York and a disruptive, timely film that speaks so clearly to our discordant present.