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Blossoms Of Fire

2000, Movie, NR, 74 mins

Blossoms Of Fire: Review

Longtime documentary editor Maureen Gosling's 16mm portrait of the thriving matriarchal culture of Juchitan, a city of 100,000 in the center of notoriously macho Mexico, is at heart a socialist realist travelogue in the tradition of Orson Welles' unfinished It's All True, shot in Brazil in 1940, or Sergei Eisenstein's 1940 Time in the Sun (compiled from footage shot for the never-completed Que Viva Mexico! in 1931 and '32) — Gosling even incorporates some of Eisenstein's... read more leave a comment