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Oct 26, 2018 · Everyone is hungry for something in "Burning," the new film from South Korean master Lee Chang-dong. How that hunger manifests, and what hunger even signifies, is up for debate. The debate itself is too dangerous to even be spoken out loud, since it threatens the class status quo.
Oct 25, 2018 · Desire, ravenous and ineffable, shudders through “Burning,” the latest from the great South Korean director Lee Chang-dong.
- Chang-Dong Lee
Oct 26, 2018 · Culture. Burning Is a Patient, Spellbinding Mystery Thriller. Lee Chang-dong has adapted a Haruki Murakami short story into an utterly captivating epic about men who simmer with anxiety,...
- Chang-Dong Lee
Oct 26, 2018 · Lee Chang-dong’s metaphysical mystery, starring Steven Yeun and based on a short-story by Haruki Murakami, is about a love triangle, a disappearance, and the cold war between haves and have-nots ...
- Adam Nayman
Dec 3, 2018 · Burning is a daring neo-noir thriller which unfolds like an all-too=real and very troubling dream. The year’s best thriller, which burns on the screen and leaves a lasting impression. When the first teaser trailer dropped for Lee Chang-Dong’s Burning, it was a shock to the senses.
May 17, 2018 · Film Review: ‘Burning’. In this loose riff on Haruki Murakami's short story 'Barn Burning,' Korean director Lee Chang-dong tries to make sense of life's mysteries. By Peter Debruge. Courtesy...
By providing an undercurrent of tension and increasing anxiety, Lee Chang-dong’s (“Poetry”) Burning (Beoning), his first film in eight years, evokes the sense that something is very wrong, something in the air that cannot be defined but is left for the viewer to discover.
