Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive.... (Full plot summary below)
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Decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, a self-destructive young woman returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive.
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| Film ThreatLorry KiktaThe 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. |
| IndieWireKate ErblandIt’s an imperfect debut, but it holds thrilling promise for what comes next. |
| Austin ChronicleSarah JaneOverstuffed and overextended, The Blazing World is buoyed by the soundtrack (especially the songs by Isom Innis and Sean Cimino in their project Peel), and the too brief appearance by the wonderful Soko. In the end, the film tries too hard. |
| RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloThe 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. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThere’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. |
| SlashfilmChris EvangelistaYoung does her best to carry this all on her shoulders, and while she nails her early scenes playing up Margaret's instability, she eventually gets lost among all the scenery and abundant production design. Never quite as surreal as it needs to be, The Blazing World is an exercise in dream logic that stumbles over itself again and again. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeAmbitious 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. |
| The PlaylistBeatrice LoayzaAs 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. |
| The Film StageMatt CipollaIt’s obvious that Young wanted to make something unique. Hopefully she strikes a chord in the future, but The Blazing World is just patchwork. |
| User ReviewMattBrady99Carlson Young, the director, writer, and actor of her own movie: OMG, so brilliant, so deep. So artistic. A work of genius! The acting was terrible, the visual homages to those 1970’s zoom in shots were done so poorly, and the movie has that irritating attitude to itself that it’s approve anything else, which made my viewing experience so painful. While the production design and overall look of the movie was decent, but sadly it was all wasted on nonsense. As I said in my review for Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (and I think it’s appropriate repeating here), if cancer was pretentious, it'd be ‘The Blazing World’. |
