Burning
A young man reconnects with a childhood acquaintance, then grows obsessed and suspicious of the wealthy stranger she introduces after she suddenly disappears.
Cannes 2018 Competition selection (FIPRESCI Prize)
Jong-su, an aspiring writer working odd jobs, reconnects with Hae-mi, a woman from his childhood village. When she returns from a trip with Ben, a wealthy and unreadable man, Jong-su is drawn into their orbit. After Hae-mi vanishes, his suspicion of Ben curdles into obsession.
The film holds jealousy, class resentment and unresolved longing in deep ambiguity, so that projection and an unquiet mind become as much the subject as any event. It offers a therapist a study of how uncertainty is filled in by fantasy. It was selected for competition at Cannes in 2018, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize, and is adapted from the short story Barn Burning by Haruki Murakami.
Details
- 2018
- South Korea
- Korean
- Film