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  • 2021
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  • 2021
  • R
  • 1 h 59 m

Summary In early November 2018, raging wildfires killed 88 residents and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in the cities of Malibu and Paradise, two very different California communities. In her new verité documentary, two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker captures the heroism and horror of that unfathomable disaster. Her character-d...

Directed By: Lucy Walker

Written By: Katherine Montgomery

  • 2021
  • R
  • 1 h 59 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • 1 h 59 m

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Summary In early November 2018, raging wildfires killed 88 residents and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in the cities of Malibu and Paradise, two very different California communities. In her new verité documentary, two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker captures the heroism and horror of that unfathomable disaster. Her character-d...

Directed By: Lucy Walker

Written By: Katherine Montgomery

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90
Aug 5, 2021
It’s a tough, smart, impressive movie, and one of its virtues is that Walker, a British transplant to Los Angeles, doesn’t seem to have figured it all out before she started shooting.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
81
Aug 5, 2021
It’s a film about hubris, selfishness, failed bureaucracies, and a stubborn inability to learn from past mistakes.
By William Bibbiani FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 6, 2021
Walker’s film might have worked better as a docuseries—one feels its two-hour length—and she has a habit of over-writing some of the narration, but it’s still a detailed piece of work, a surprising angle on a terrifying new reality about living in certain parts of the world, and an inquiry as to whether or not we’re going to do anything about it.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 4, 2021
Mixing in citizens’ harrowing cellphone footage and heartbreaking emergency call recordings, Walker’s teams immerse us in the flaming terror as few features have before.
By Bob Strauss FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 4, 2021
Lucy Walker’s absorbing study of California’s 2018 wildfires consistently goes in illuminating and surprising directions.
By Mark Jenkins FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Artemis Rising Foundation, Rooftop Films, Topic Studios, Tree Tree Tree, XTR
Release Date Aug 6, 2021
Duration 1 h 59 m
Rating R
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Awards

Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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