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In “Bring Your Own Brigade,” Lucy Walker acts as a compassionate and dogged guide into the inferno. A transplant to the American West — California, to be more precise — from verdant Britain, the documentary filmmaker cast herself as a concerned and rightly flummoxed outsider while investigating increasingly extended and catastrophic wildfire seasons. “Why is the hillside on fire?” she recalls thinking as she drove along a Los Angeles freeway. Her film is brimming with questions.
With a cast composed of wildfire survivors, firefighters, scientists, and indigenous thinkers, “Bring Your Own Brigade” is intelligent, harrowing, and poignant. Walker’s willingness to have her certainties upended makes the documentary a welcome addition to the climate-change genre even as it challenges assumptions about wildfires and the warming of the planet.
Walker began her research four years ago, compelled to answer for herself why fires have become more ferocious and more deadly. She was pretty...
With a cast composed of wildfire survivors, firefighters, scientists, and indigenous thinkers, “Bring Your Own Brigade” is intelligent, harrowing, and poignant. Walker’s willingness to have her certainties upended makes the documentary a welcome addition to the climate-change genre even as it challenges assumptions about wildfires and the warming of the planet.
Walker began her research four years ago, compelled to answer for herself why fires have become more ferocious and more deadly. She was pretty...
- 6/30/2021
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
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