Burning Man (2011)

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Siskoid
Burning Man is an astonishing achievement in editing, playing as a fast-cut jigsaw that's positively Proustian. It's a very personal film for Autralian writer-director Jonathan Teplitzky who based it on his own personal tragedy, though the protagonist (Matthew Goode) is a chef rather than a film director. I'm not sure I want to tell you what it's about exactly, because the editing is such that you believe it's one thing until it becomes another, but Goode plays a man behaving badly because of an overwhelming loss, forced to raise a son alone while going through this. The narrative is completely achronological, moving across his experience from scene to scene, even from shot to shot, based on the emotion of each moment. We're basically in his head, flashing back to images and moments based on the previous image or moment. A downer, to be sure, but not sentimental. Rather, true to life, hopeful and perfectly acted. I'd use it as a companion piece to The Tracey Fragments as far as maverick editing goes, though the portrait Burning Man paints is less experimental in form, and about an hour longer. 8 years 10 months ago
BarryAllen
Beautiful directing and cinematography, but that can't save a bland and uninteresting story. 9 years 10 months ago