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The plain isn’t the only thing that’s charred in screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga’s directorial debut; subtlety goes up in flames too. The Burning Plain, which Arriaga also scripted, follows the same fractured, parceled-out, time-toggling narrative structure found in his trilogy with Alejandro González Iñárritu ( Amores Perros, 21 Grams ...
Verified Audience. Jason Best Movie Talk. The Burning Plain has individual scenes that are powerful and moving, but in the end the whole is considerably less than the sum of its parts. Full Review ...
Directed by Guillermo Arriaga. 2008 1h 51m R. Drama, Romance, Crime, and more. 6.7 38% 56%. Watch. A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them.
Sep 18, 2009 · Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her parents.
Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. The Burning Plain is made with great care and integrity and showcases fine, earnest efforts from a talented cast. (J.D. Pardo is particularly memorable as the adulterous father's teen son.) But its languid pace and the basic grimness of the characters' lives make it heavy going some of the time.
In Mexico, a young motherless girl, Maria, lives happily with her father and his best friend until a tragic accident changes it all. In the New Mexico border town of Las Cruces, two teenagers, Mariana and Santiago, find love in the aftermath of their parents' sudden deaths. In an abandoned trailer, a housewife, Gina, embarks on a passionate ...
Aug 29, 2008 · The Burning Plain is set in the same cross-border Tex-Mex turf as Three Burials but dispenses with such gruesome devices as a decaying corpse, and focuses on a group of damaged individuals ...
