{"id":81314,"date":"2020-10-03T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-wildfire-take-one-tiff-2020-and-film-reviews\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T20:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T17:04:38","slug":"watch-wildfire-take-one-tiff-2020-and-film-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wildfire-take-one-tiff-2020-and-film-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch  Wildfire | TAKE ONE | TIFF 2020 and Film Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a400bd685291\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a400bd685291\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-wildfire-take-one-tiff-2020-and-film-reviews\/#%E2%80%9CWildfire_TAKE_ONE_TIFF_2020_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Wildfire | TAKE ONE | TIFF 2020 Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWildfire_TAKE_ONE_TIFF_2020_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Wildfire | TAKE ONE | TIFF 2020 Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiff_logo-e1600258863755.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"105\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37587\"\/><strong>The intense WILDFIRE, from Cathy Brady, has The Troubles loom in the background. A formative event in the lives of its characters, their current turmoil features imagery of Brexit accenting their spiralling anguish. However, the political situation is a backdrop and metaphor for the resurfacing of painful memories \u2013 Brady\u2019s film never deviates from the characters at the core of this drama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelly (Nika McGuigan) returns to Belfast after many years missing. Her sister, Lauren (Nora-Jane Noone), is at once grateful but also confused and angry at her sister\u2019s prolonged absence and lack of contact. Both the sisters are haunted by the memory of their mother\u2019s passing, and Lauren worries Kelly\u2019s mental health is going down a similar path. Kelly\u2019s arrival strains the bonds of the sisters, of Lauren\u2019s marriage, and the community around them. Underscored by the local sectarian and paramilitary tensions that have lain dormant until recently, the pair start to hurtle towards a reckoning with their own and the community\u2019s pasts.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline of Kelly\u2019s traumas and return feel very pointed and allegorical. Much is made of the imagery in the Belfast setting referring to Brexit, and the particularly damaging effect it could have \u2013 and has already had \u2013 on the Irish border. Brady\u2019s framing frequently lingers on British flags, murals harking back to The Troubles, and a road sign graffitied to read \u201cWelcome to One Ireland\u201d rather than Northern Ireland. A customs search of Kelly upon her return is a traumatically invasive experience exerted by government authority. These are mainly a backdrop, however, to a passionate and engaging performance from McGuigan as Kelly (made all the more poignant by the fact she passed away from cancer-related illness after filming was complete, and the film is dedicated to her). Noone provides an equally engaging but slightly more straight-laced performance as Lauren, even if she is predictably pitched (initially) as an opposing force).<\/p>\n<p>All of these elements speak to the fact that a national-scale constitutional trauma can often abstract attention away for the comparatively micro-scale personal anguishes resulting from it. A straight line can be drawn from the women\u2019s father\u2019s experiences of The Troubles, through their mother\u2019s fate, to the dynamics of their relationship in the present. Arguably, Brady is slightly more assured behind the camera than the pen here: her stylistic flourishes and use of red to draw connections work better than the subtle attempts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> to blend the political backdrop with the personal foreground. The hostility and suspicion of the community around the sisters come through strongly, but the antagonistic elements around local paramilitary released as a result of the Good Friday agreement, for example, never quite connect with those lingering and abstract political strands.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, WILDFIRE is an intelligent and considered debut feature anchored by two engaging central performances. The story is very much character-driven, and the film never loses sight of that with the focus on the late McGuigan, in particular. 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