Burning Man

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Burning Man

2011,

1h 49m,

Drama

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72%

25 Reviews

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64%

2,500+ Ratings

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72%

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25 Reviews

64%

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2,500+ Ratings

After the death of his wife (Bojana Novakovic), a father (Matthew Goode) gives in to grief and anger and uses casual sex to cope with his pain.

Andy Webster

New York Times

Jul 26, 2012

3/5

Foodies looking for a good cry, bon appétit.

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Benjamin Mercer

Village Voice

Jul 25, 2012

Burning Man leans heavily on a scrambled chronology, and likewise feels tonally mixed up, but it certainly does keep you guessing.

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Tom Ryan

The Age (Australia)

Nov 17, 2011

3/5

Unfortunately, the answers to these questions turn out to be less involving than Teplitzky's methods in asking them.

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Kip Mooney

College Movie Review

Sep 18, 2021

F

You'll likely doze off.

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Jordan M. Smith

IONCINEMA.com

Feb 9, 2020

Arrives in carefully mapped out bits and pieces to provide an excellently executed emotional punch to the gut that while not being completely autobiographical, obviously bares authenticity from the heart and soul of writer/director Jonathan Leplitzky.

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Stephen Saito

Moveable Fest

Jan 8, 2019

You'd think the plentiful nude women and an enjoyably cocky Matthew Goode to seduce them would be the most risqué aspect of "Burning Man," but it's actually the film's structure that's most audacious.

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Finn R

Sep 3, 2017

Hey guess what, turns out what Lynne Ramsay does is actually really difficult to pull off. It requires a painter's deft touch in the cutting room to craft a subjective, non-linear portrait of an unlikeable character, you can't just throw your negatives in a mulcher and hope what comes out the bottom is coherent. And to make matters worse, it checks just about every box on my list of things I hate about Australian drama: the doomy gloomy tone; people yelling or crying in every scene; self-destructive, self-pitying assholes (but they're not just assholes because they're assholes, they totally have a reason for being assholes, like...); people dying of cancer. No wonder nobody watches these things.

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Anakin S

Feb 25, 2017

Well acted and well directed. it's excellent

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Bojana Novakovic

Sarah

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Synopsis

After the death of his wife (Bojana Novakovic), a father (Matthew Goode) gives in to grief and anger and uses casual sex to cope with his pain.

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Producer: Jonathan Teplitzky, Andy Paterson
Screenwriter: Jonathan Teplitzky
Production Co: Meercat Films, Archer Street Productions, Screen New South Wales, Screen Australia, Latitude Media
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Australian English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 49m

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