Lizzie Borden
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There is nothing erotic about the film's explicit carnality (a laudable instinct that reminded me a great deal of Lizzie Borden's exceptional Working Girls), but neither is very much insight provided into the cool irony of the film's title: the ways in which frustrated people try and fail to connect with one another.
I thought once or twice about Lizzie Borden's amazing Working Girls, which takes place entirely in a brothel.
…reveling in familiar cinematic approaches to representing marginalized lives like the unhoused ensures your movie can’t be as “transgressive” as Born in Flames or The Cremator.
The Bride! (2026)
Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
influenced by Working Girls (1987), Born in Flames (1983)
Themes
Compare this effort to the likes of Borden’s Working Girls, Donna Deitch’s Desert Hearts, or Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman.
Gyllenhaal weaves in references to Whale's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, Shelley's novel Frankenstein, as well as Mel Brooks' parody Young Frankenstein, Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, and Lizzie Borden's 1983 dystopian classic, Born in Flames.
One Battle After Another (2025)
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
influenced by Born in Flames (1983)
Plot
…imagine Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames (1983) on big-budget steroids, served over ICE…