BURNING directed by Lee Chang-dong (South Korea. 2019)

burningThis quietly subversive and absorbing movie is based on the short story, Barn Burning, by Nobel laureate in waiting Haruki Murakami.

I haven’t read this but from a synopsis on Wikipedia it seems that the tale has been used as a stub from which the director has let his imagination flow freely. Lee Chang-dong appears to have added more than a few ideas and themes from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle such as a missing woman, a mysterious garden well and an elusive cat. Continue reading →