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- 2006
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 15 m
- 2006
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 15 m
Summary Blossoms of Fire is a dazzling, whirling dance of a film that celebrates the extraordinary lives of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. (New Yorker Films)
Directed By: Maureen Gosling, Ellen Osborne
Written By: Toni Hanna, Maureen Gosling
- 2006
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 15 m
- 2006
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 15 m
Blossoms of Fire
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Summary Blossoms of Fire is a dazzling, whirling dance of a film that celebrates the extraordinary lives of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. (New Yorker Films)
Directed By: Maureen Gosling, Ellen Osborne
Written By: Toni Hanna, Maureen Gosling
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
58
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
75% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Blossoms of Fire fulfills the first criterion of any good ethnographic study: It's about an inherently interesting subject.
A bright, amiable chronicle of the vivid lives of the women of Juchitán.
It's easy to be seduced by this film's warmhearted, if slightly utopian, vision.
Backed by folk songs and swirling shots of fiestas and markets, Blossoms is feel-good tourism but by its own bounds only woolly anthropology.
Ethnographic segments about the natives' daily life are bridged by expressive folk songs, though the film digresses to consider colonialism, homosexuality, and the effects of globalization on indigenous cultures. Gosling's schoolmarmish narration betrays the filmmakers' awestruck naivete toward the culture, which they seem to consider some sort of matriarchal utopia.
Obviously, this is one subject which may not seem to require the attention of documentary filmmakers.
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Release Date Jan 20, 2006
Duration 1 h 15 m
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Awards
Havana Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
