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Born in Flames
- Director: Lizzie Borden
- Writer: Lizzie Borden; Ed Bowes
- Producer: Lizzie Borden
CGiii Comment
This 'underground' feature was made before the comfort of digital paraphernalia...so, it has to be admired - simply, for the amount of work that went into it.
However, you would have to be a hardcore, dedicated feminist in order to watch this - from beginning to end...amateur, angry, immature and idealistic are four words that immediately spring to mind.
And, there's Kathryn Bigelow (acting credit)...humble beginnings indeed...
But...it is testament to the times and tenacity of those angry, amateur, immature and idealistic filmmakers...most never quite got to change their worlds they hoped for. It's all just a little too angry [perhaps]...but, Kathryn is smiling. And, film festivals keep screening it!
And, Lizzie Borden is not exactly an approachable person. In fact, she is/was rude and rather monotonal. Really wish I hadn't been in the same room @edinburghfilmfest. Zzz.
Is it an important film? Probably is/was...for those dwindling few who cares!
Did [petty] Pussy Riot see this film before their revolution???
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a dystopia in which the issues of many progressive groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are ostensibly dealt with by the government, and yet there are still problems with jobs, with gender issues, with governmental preference and violence. In New York City, in this future time, a group of women decide to organize and mobilize, to take the revolution farther than any man - and many women - ever imagined in their lifetimes.
Cast & Characters
Honey as Honey;
Adele Bertei as Isabel;
Jean Satterfield as Adelaide Norris;
Florynce Kennedy as Zella;
Becky Johnston as Newspaper Editor;
Pat Murphy as Newspaper Editor;
Kathryn Bigelow as Newspaper Editor;
Hillary Hurst as Leader of Women's Army Hillary Hurst;
Sheila McLaughlin as Other Leader;
Marty Pottenger as Other Leader / Woman at Site;
Lynne Jones as Other Leader;
Ron Vawter as FBI Agent;
John Coplans as Chief;
John Rudolph as TV Newscaster;
Warner Schreiner as TV Newscaster