Burning (film)

Burning (Korean: 버닝; RR: Beoning) is a 2018 South Korean psychological thriller film[3][4] co-written, co-produced, and directed by Lee Chang-dong. Based on the short story "Barn Burning" from The Elephant Vanishes by author Haruki Murakami, it stars Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, and Jeon Jong-seo. The movie depicts a young deliveryman Jongsu (Yoo) who runs into his childhood friend Haemi (Jun). She asks if he’d mind looking after her cat while she’s away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. And one day Ben tells Jongsu about his most unusual hobby.

For the 1981 American slasher film, see The Burning (film).
Burning
Theatrical release poster
Hangul버닝
Revised RomanizationBeoning
Directed byLee Chang-dong
Produced by
  • Lee Joon-dong
  • Lee Chang-dong
Screenplay by
  • Oh Jung-mi
  • Lee Chang-dong
Based on"Barn Burning"
by Haruki Murakami
Starring
Music byMowg
CinematographyHong Kyung-pyo
Edited by
  • Kim Hyeon
  • Kim Da-won
Production
company
  • Pinehouse Film
  • Now Film
  • NHK
Distributed byCGV Arthouse[1]
Release date
  • May 16, 2018 (2018-05-16) (Cannes)
  • May 17, 2018 (2018-05-17) (South Korea)
Running time
148 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$7.1 million[2]

The first film directed by Lee in eight years, the film premiered on May 16, 2018, at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or; it ended up receiving the FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize at the festival. It was released the following day in South Korea and on October 26, 2018, in the United States.

It received almost universal critical acclaim, particularly for its sense of unease and ambiguous narrative and performances. It was selected as the South Korean entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards; although it was not nominated, it became the first Korean film to make it to the final nine-film shortlist. It received numerous other accolades, and was included on several critics' "top ten" lists for the year 2018, notably those of The New York Times, LA Times, and the Associated Press; it was also included on some lists of the greatest films of the decade.

Plot

An aspiring young novelist, Lee Jong-su works odd jobs in Paju. One day he runs into Shin Hae-mi, a childhood neighbor and classmate, at a promotion for which he is making a delivery. Jong-su initially does not remember her, but Shin Hae-mi tells him she had plastic surgery. Jong-su then remembers and gives her a pink watch that he won at the promotion. Later, she tells him about her upcoming trip to Africa and asks him to feed her cat, Boil, while she is away. Some time before Hae-mi's departure, Jong-su's father, a cattle farmer, is tangled in legal affairs, and Jong-su has to return to the farm. Jong-su passes by Hae-mi's apartment, where he receives instructions about feeding the cat. They presume to have sex in at her apartment.

After Hae-mi departs, Jong-su dutifully feeds her cat, although he never sees it. He does, however, know that a cat is there because he finds feces in the cat's litter box. He also begins habitually masturbating in her apartment. One day Hae-mi calls, saying she had become stranded at Nairobi Airport for three days after a bombing nearby. When Jong-su comes to pick her up, she arrives with Ben, whom she met and bonded with during the crisis. The three go out for dinner, where Hae-mi recalls a sunset she witnessed during her travels. Moved by the memory, she cries and confesses to them that she wanted to disappear. Ben is well-off and confident, though it is never entirely clear what he does for a living. He also notes them that he never cried once in his entire life. Jong-su, struggling to get by and taking care of his family farm while his father is in prison, envies Ben and his relationship with Hae-mi from afar.

Hanging out at Jong-su's farm, Hae-mi recalls a childhood memory wherein Jong-su rescued her after she fell into a well near her home, which Jong-su does not remember. The trio smoke cannabis and Hae-mi dances topless. After Hae-mi has fallen asleep on the sofa, Ben confesses a strange hobby: Every two months, he burns an abandoned greenhouse. He notes that Jong-su's rural neighborhood is full of greenhouses. When asked when his next burning will take place, Ben claims it will be very soon and close to Jong-su's house. Jong-su tells Ben that he loves Hae-mi, however he shames Hae-mi for disrobing in front of other men, calling her a prostitute. Hae-mi quietly gets into Ben's car and as they leave Jong-su tells Ben he will keep an eye on the greenhouses in his area.

That night Jong-su has a dream of himself naked as a young boy approaching a burning greenhouse. After the dream he looks outside at the ruins of a greenhouse on the farm and recovers Ben's lighter from the previous night.

Over the following days, Jong-su patrols around the neighborhood to see if any greenhouses burn down, but none do. One afternoon, in front of an intact greenhouse that he happens to be inspecting he receives a call from Hae-mi, which cuts off after a few seconds of ambiguous noises. Jong-su becomes worried as she does not return any of his calls afterwards, and begins to investigate after her phone number becomes disconnected. Eventually he convinces the landlady to let him into Hae-mi's apartment so he can feed her cat. However, she notes that no animals are allowed in the building. Hae-mi's apartment is unnaturally clean, her pink suitcase remains, and all signs of the cat are gone. Jong-su begins stalking Ben, starting at his apartment and following him to see where he goes. When he sees Ben's Porsche parked outside a restaurant he goes inside to talk to him. Ben looks surprised and is friendly to Jong-su. A young woman suddenly approaches the table, apologizing to Ben for being late. As the three of them leave the restaurant, Jong-su asks Ben if he has heard from Hae-mi and if she had gone on a trip. Ben says he has not heard from her, and doubts she had gone on a trip because she couldn't afford it. Talking about her in the past tense, Ben says Hae-mi disappeared like ash and that Jong-su was the only person she trusted. He says that it made him jealous for the first time in his life.

Jong-su repeatedly starts to look for clues. He goes to Hae-mi's family restaurant asking if the well story is true, and her mother denies, stating Hae-mi always invented stories and there was no well. Her mother also tells Hae-mi is prohibited of talking to the family because of her major credit card debt. Jong-su asks the new owners of her old house and they don't recall the existence of the well itself. Later, Jong-su receives a call from his mother, whom he hasn't heard from in many years. He meets with her and she states that she remembers the well.

One day, Ben finds Jong-su outside his place. Ben asks him why he was there and Jong-su tells that he wants to talk about Hae-mi with him. Ben invites him up to his party in his apartment where Jong-su finds that Ben has a new cat which he claims is a rescued stray. Jong-su's suspicions are raised further when on a visit to the toilet he finds a recent pink watch, similar to the one he had given Hae-mi, hidden in a drawer containing other pieces of women’s jewelry. Shortly afterwards, Ben's cat runs out of the apartment to the garage and Jong-su calls the cat "Boil", the same name as Hae-mi's cat, and the cat comes to him. Jong-su tries to leave but is stopped by Ben, asking him if he doesn't want to talk about Hae-mi and Jong-su tells him he no longer needs to do that.

Jong-su starts writing his novel in Hae-mi's apartment. Ben is seen putting make-up on a young woman in his apartment. Jong-su asks to meet Ben in the countryside, claiming he is with Hae-mi. After Ben discovers that Hae-mi is not there, he asks him where she is, Jong-su proceeds to stab Ben several times. Stunned at his actions Ben starts crying and hugs Jong-su in his final moments until his death. Jong-su douses Ben's car and body in gasoline and sets it all aflame, tossing his blood-soaked clothes in as well. He then goes to stumble to his truck, driving away as the car burns.

Cast

Production

Developed as the work of the international project which was based on one of Haruki Murakami's short stories in The Elephant Vanishes, "Barn Burning".[5][6][7] Production was set to begin in November 2016 but was delayed by a dispute between Murakami and NHK, which owns the rights to many of Murakami's works.[8][9][10][11] It also merges elements of William Faulkner's 1939 short story of the same name. In October 2016, however, Lee said, "it is a story about young people in today’s world. When they think of their lives and the world, it must feel like a mystery", at the Busan International Film Festival.[8][10] In September 2017, the studio said that it had only brought the basic outlines of the story.[12]

In 2016, it was thought that Gang Dong-won and Yoo Ah-in will feature in the film, but an official announcement was not made.[9]

On September 5, 2017, it was announced that Yoo Ah-in has been confirmed for the role of Jong-su.[13][14] Three days later, newcomer Jeon Jong-seo was cast for the role of Hae-mi based on auditions which began in August.[15][16][17] On September 20, Steven Yeun joined the film as Ben.[18][19]

Principal photography began on September 11, 2017.[20] Filming wrapped on January 30, 2018, in Paju.[21]

Release
Cast and director at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

The first film directed by Lee Chang-dong in eight years,[8] Burning was widely predicted by film critics and insiders to be an in-competition entry at the upcoming 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Lee's 2007 film Secret Sunshine and his 2010 film Poetry both premiered as in-competition entries at the Cannes Film Festival.[22][23] In April 2018, Burning was among the lineup of in-competition entries announced for the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[24][25]

Burning was sold to more than 100 countries and territories at the Marché du Film in Cannes Film Festival. This included Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Greece, Poland and Turkey.[26]

In South Korea, Burning premiered in theaters on May 17, 2018.[27] It was released in the United States on October 26, 2018.[28]

Netflix released Burning on its streaming service on April 29, 2019.[29]

Home media

Distributor Well Go USA Entertainment released Burning on Blu-ray and DVD on March 5, 2019.[30][31]

Reception

Box office

As of 7 March 2019, Burning has grossed $719,772 in the United States and Canada, and $6.1 million in other territories (including $4.2 million in South Korea), for a total worldwide gross of $6.8 million.[2]

On its opening day in South Korea, Burning attracted 52,324 viewers in total, ranking second at the box office behind Deadpool 2 (248,904 viewers).[32] Over the first weekend of its release, Burning received 220,717 admissions, placing third at the local box office.[33] By the end of its run, the film recorded 528,168 admissions in its home country.[34]

In its opening weekend in France, the film attracted 53,876 audience in total, ranking third at the box office behind Mile 22.[35][36]

In its opening weekend in the United States, the film made $26,130 from two theaters. The film had its widest release in its third weekend, playing in 27 theaters and grossing $76,608.[28]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% from 185 reviews, with an average rating of 8.59/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Burning patiently lures audiences into a slow-burning character study that ultimately rewards the viewer's patience -- and subverts many of their expectations."[37] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 90 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[38]

Los Angeles Times's Justin Chang called it "a masterpiece of psychological unease— the most lucid and absorbing new movie I've seen this year, as well as the most layered and enigmatic."[39] The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it "a gripping nightmare" and lavished praise on how "Lee creates a sense of mood and place with masterly flair."[40] Sight & Sound rated it the third best film of 2018,[41] and Jessica Kiang wrote in her Cannes review, "The embers are banked up so gradually that it’s not until a few hours after the ending of this elusive, riveting masterpiece that you are far enough away to appreciate the scale of the conflagration."[42] Tim Robey in The Daily Telegraph observed, "This is Lee’s closest ever film to a thriller, but it defies expectations, offering multiple, murky solutions to a set of mysteries at once."[43] Vulture's Emily Yoshida praised the film for its "perception of the rich vampirizing youth — not directly biologically or physically or financially, but emotionally" but considered that "Burning lost its steam in its second half".[44] Peter Debruge of Variety suggested that "[t]he degree to which Burning succeeds will depend largely on one's capacity to identify with the unspoken but strongly conveyed sense of jealousy and frustration its lower-class protagonist feels".[45] Rolling Stone's Peter Travers wrote that the film "sizzles with a cumulative power that will knock the wind out of you" and declared that "Lee has crafted a hypnotic and haunting film that transcends genre to dig deep into the human condition. You won’t be able to get it out of your head."[46]

Geoff Andrew of Time Out was similarly positive, hailing it as a "movie rich in teasing ambiguities and possible lies... Lee's interest lies not in crime-solving but in exploring Jongsu's emotional confusion... Both a slow-burn suspense drama and an intriguing enigma, his film is beautifully executed".[47] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter reacted enthusiastically to the film, writing that "[t]his is a beautifully crafted film loaded with glancing insights and observations into an understated triangular relationship, one rife with subtle perceptions about class privilege, reverberating family legacies, creative confidence, self-invention, sexual jealousy, justice and revenge".[48] For The Canadian Press, David Friend said the film includes "simmering layers of subtext and tension build over the film's two-and-a-half hour runtime."[49]

Nick Pinkerton, writing in ArtForum, was more muted, writing that "Burning is strewn with all sorts of information whose exact meaning and validity is impossible to determine... a film with such a diffident, often passive protagonist must generate its tensions and attractions elsewhere—memorable supporting players, a tactile atmosphere, a complex sense of the social sphere, an emphatic emotionalism".[50]

The depiction of the female character Hae-mi in the film attracted some criticism. However, Adam Nayman from Film Society of Lincoln Center[51] argued and emphasized for The Ringer that the story is "told fully from Jongsu's point of view," so "it's fair to ask whether Lee Chang Dong is cultivating true audience solidarity or urging us to understand the story exclusively through the lens of his hero's prejudices: to see Haemi and Ben as idealized and demonized figures, respectively."[52] Phoebe Chen of the Film Feminist Journal: Another Gaze, analyzed that Haemi's existence had a grander purpose in the film, and wrote, "If you know Burning is adapted from a Haruki Murakami short story, however loosely, you know that Haemi will vanish. The trope of the missing woman is built into Murakami's narrative DNA: her vanishing will preoccupy the protagonist, neurotically at first, then fade over the months and years to a dull malaise", and "The mystery of Haemi’s disappearance is technically 'solved', but becomes supplanted by one grander: the mystery of a world that tantalises with the hope of futurity while locking its millions of subjects in a cold impasse."[53] Alexandra Heller-Nicholas of Alliance of Women Film Journalists emphasized that the character of Hae-mi is much more than simply a missing woman as plot device but one of the most powerful parts of a film that casually yet firmly addresses the pressures on women, "While the film’s well-executed action and unflinching, profound exploration of its deeper thematic questions circle Jong-su and Ben with increasing intensity, it is this question of Hae-mi that drives the story. This is much, much more than simply a missing woman as plot device: one of the most powerful parts of a film that can comfortably boast a range of achievements is how casually yet firmly the film addresses the pressures on women – not just Hae-mi and her colleagues, but Jong-su's own mother – to live up to financially unsustainable images of femininity in contemporary South Korea."[54]

Accolades
Main article: List of accolades received by Burning

Burning won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[55] It became the highest-rated film in the history of Screen International’s Cannes jury grid.[56] Burning also won Best Foreign Language Film in Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Best Foreign Language Film in Toronto Film Critics Association and National Board of Review's Top Five Foreign Language Film. It went on to be nominated for three Asia Pacific Screen Awards, winning the Jury Grand Prize.[57][58] It was included on Roger Ebert's Great Movies.[59] It was nominated for eight Asian Film Awards, including Best Film, and won Best Director award.[60][61] In September 2019, it won Saturn Award for Best International Film.

Burning was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 91st Academy Awards; although it was not nominated, it became the first Korean film to make it to the final nine-film shortlist.[62][63]

Top ten lists

Burning appeared on many critics' year-end top ten lists for 2018, among them:[64]

Top 10 (not ranked)

Decade-end lists

In late 2019, Burning also appeared on the "Best films of the decade" lists of Rolling Stone,[68] The A.V. Club,[69] Associated Press,[70] Boston Globe,[71] Indiewire,[72] Insider,[73] and Film Comment.[74]

See also

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