The Burning Plain
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- Synopsis
- 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 ......
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- Director(s)
- Guillermo Arriaga
- Distributor(s)
- Magnolia
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 111 min.
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Critic Reviews
Los Angeles Times | Gary GoldsteinAdd Critic to Favorites
Powerful, profound and beautifully rendered.Read the full review
Boston Globe | Mark FeeneyAdd Critic to Favorites
The best performance here comes from a Mexican child actress, Tessa Ia, as half of one of the fraught mother-daughter relationships.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
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.Read the full review
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11/12/09 In early 2009, the "everything-is-connected" movie finally hit bottom when its chief architect, writer Guillermo Arriaga ( 21 Grams , Babel ), made his directorial debut with The Burning Plain , a film that epitomized the dirge-like self-importance of the worst cinematic puzzles. | The A.V. Club -
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09/17/09 While all of the performers in writer-director Jane Campion's long-overdue return to the lives of cloistered women in frocks who want nothing more than to tear them off for the right man (or possibly the wrong man) are quite good, but I find it quite funny that American Paul Schneider (AWAY WWE GO, THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES, LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, "Parks and Recreation") completely swipes every scene that he's in away from the film's stars. | Ain't It Cool News -
41% The Burning Plain
09/17/09 From Guillermo Arriaga, the internationally acclaimed writer of Babel, 21 Grams and Amores Perros, comes THE BURNING PLAIN, a romantic mystery about a woman on the edge who takes an emotional journey back to the defining moment of her life. | Rotten Tomatoes -
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Charlize Is Anything by Plain Early in the Morning
09/16/09 Charlize Theron was up bright and early today to pay a visit to Good Morning America in NYC. | POPSUGAR
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