The high-sheen Australian drama Burning Man leans heavily on a scrambled chronology, and likewise feels tonally mixed up, but it certainly does keep you guessing.
Burning Man
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United Kingdom, Australia · 2011
1h 51m
Director Jonathan Teplitzky
Starring Matthew Goode, Bojana Novaković, Essie Davis, Kerry Fox
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
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This nonlinear film tells the story of Tom, a difficult, temperamental chef at a chic Bondi Beach restaurant who uses constant casual sex as an escape and who struggles as a father to his eight-year-old son Oscar. However, Tom's erratic behavior hides deep pain about his past.
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Say what you will about Burning Man, but writer-director Jonathan Teplitsky can't be accused of spoon-feeding his audience.
Grief doesn't rate high among emotional states suited to high-octane presentation; hence the disconnect between excessive style and sober content in Burning Man, a feature-length montage posing as a serious drama about loss and anger.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Burning Man takes its time getting us to feel for a troubled character but gets the hook in solidly once it decides to.
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