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"FLAMINGOS is thoroughly remarkable in the way it packs dense,
engaging
layers of
honest emotional and spiritual musings in an
extremely constricting
framework.
Yet, through a well designed
cinematography, Alli never lets the
film feel confined or limited."
-- Mike Everleth, Underground Film Journal
"The solar flares are going to wipe everything out..."
Joe Estlack and Madeline H.D. Brown as star-crossed lovers
plotting escape from the end of the world as they know it.
FLAMINGOS (2012; 90 min. USA) Twin sisters Beatrice and Zoe are in love with Ray, a junkie hypnotist-bank robber obsessed with apocalyptic visions of catastrophic solar flares. Though married to Beatrice, Ray absconds with free-spirited Zoe after a bank heist to a seedy motel to plot their future. Meanwhile, two interzone entities from a Bardo dimension influence their fates from behind the scenes in this heady cocktail chaser of amour fou and metaphysical mayhem.
THE CAST AND THE REVIEWS
Madeline H.D. Brown as "Zoe" and Joe Estlack as "Ray"
"Special praise is in order for Madeline H.D. Brown’s remarkable double
performance as the chilly Beatrice and earthy Zoe, Joe Estlack’s work as
the extremely off-kilter bank robber, and Alaska Yamada’s uncommon
energy as a Bardo denizen whose eerie presence is both disturbing
and liberating." 4 stars. - Phil Hall, NYC film critic
Madeline H.D. Brown as "Beatrice and Robert Hamm as the attorney
starring
MADELINE H.D. BROWN as "Beatrice" & "Zoe"
and JOE ESTLACK as "Ray"
also featuring...
ROBERT HAMM as Lester Beringer, divorce attorney
ILYA PARIZHSKY as the Psychopomp
ALASKA YAMADA as Bardo Girl
MEDIA STORIES AND REVIEWS
what the Press says about 'Flamingos'
There is a palpable, visceral reality to the performances which is gripping. The plot is exceedingly simple, with few events, but it functions as a kind of poetic mechanism, designed to get different primal realities going in the characters. The film doesn’t hide the fact that one actress is playing two roles, but no one would confuse the worldly, coolly manipulative Beatrice with Zoe, the girl who believes only in love and utopia. The sisters are two sides of a coin, two ways of responding to the same crazy longing.
- David Finkelstein, filmthrea
Alaska Yamada as Bardo Girl
BEHIND THE SCENES
Vision statement, The Crew, Soundtrack, Screening history
MEDIA STORIES AND REVIEWS
what the Press says about 'Flamingos'
FLAMINGOS on IMDb
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