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The Burning Plain is a 2008 American drama film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga and starring Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida. In Arriaga's directorial debut, he films a story that has multipart story strands woven together as in his previous screenplays.
The Burning Plain, a collection of short stories (one of the same name) by Juan Rulfo, published in 1953.
Sep 17, 2009 · The Burning Plain. Directed by Guillermo Arriaga. Crime, Drama, Romance. R. 1h 47m. By A.O. Scott. Sept. 17, 2009. There is a burning trailer in “The Burning Plain” and also a crashing...
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Sep 16, 2009 · “The Burning Plain” involves events perhaps 20 years and 1,000 miles apart, with many of the same characters. Told chronologically, it might have accumulated considerable power. Told as a labyrinthine tangle of intercut timelines and locations, it is a frustrating exercise in self-indulgence by writer-director Guillermo Arriaga .
Guillermo Arriaga makes his directorial debut with The Burning Plain, but it’s a film that’s also almost instantly identifiable, bearing as it does the same hallmarks as the numerous films he’s written.
Though far less globe-hopping and linguistically ambitious than 2006’s Babel, The Burning Plain, cutting between Mexico, New Mexico, and Oregon—in Spanish and English—shares the earlier film’s facile ideas about salvation and forgiveness.
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A romantic mystery about a woman on the edge who takes an emotional journey back to the defining moment of her life. Oscar-winner Charlize Theron plays Sylvia, a beautiful restaurant manager whose cool, professional demeanor masks the sexually charged storm within.
