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  • 2021
  • TV-MA
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2021
  • TV-MA
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman (Carlson Young) returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive. Through an epic journey down the darkest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her close...

Directed By: Carlson Young

Written By: Pierce Brown, Carlson Young

  • 2021
  • TV-MA
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2021
  • TV-MA
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 41 m

The Blazing World

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman (Carlson Young) returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive. Through an epic journey down the darkest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her close...

Directed By: Carlson Young

Written By: Pierce Brown, Carlson Young

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
33
22% Positive
2 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
67% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
33
22% Positive
2 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
67% Negative
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80
Oct 15, 2021
The visual effects are haunting, the costume design by Juliana Hoffpauir is delightfully fanciful, particularly for Shaw’s scenes as a nameless masked demon. The cinematography from veteran cinematographer Shane F. Kelly is a sight to behold. Basically, The Blazing World is gorgeous. It’s also incredibly well written by Peirce Brown and Young.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
67
Oct 15, 2021
It’s an imperfect debut, but it holds thrilling promise for what comes next.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
33
Oct 15, 2021
As the film builds up to its climax, we realize Young’s understanding of mental illness lacks any real depth or complexity, betraying the artist’s limited worldview. The Blazing World is female trauma in the form of an amusement park funhouse.
By Beatrice Loayza FULL REVIEW
33
Oct 15, 2021
It’s obvious that Young wanted to make something unique. Hopefully she strikes a chord in the future, but The Blazing World is just patchwork.
By Matt Cipolla FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 15, 2021
Ambitious but tediously precious, sincerely conceived but derivatively realized, The Blazing World throws an ornate heap of production design at an anemically scripted psychological metaphor, and counts on a combination of fairy dust and sheer determined nerve to make the whole contraption fly.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
30
Oct 15, 2021
There’s plenty of imagination on display in The Blazing World, but it’s buried amidst the narrative and stylistic self-indulgence that assumes we’ll be interested in going on this very strange and ultimately enervating journey.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
25
Oct 18, 2021
The Blazing World falls short narratively and visually, not leaning hard enough into its stylistic possibilities to leave an impression past its opening credits. It’s fantasy for the sake of therapy, and there’s no romance or joy here in imagining a better realm.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Greenbelt Films, Tealhouse Entertainment, Cinebloc, Wavelength
Release Date Oct 15, 2021
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Website https://deadline.com/2018/01/carlson-young-the-blazing-world-sundance-video-interview-1202266734/
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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