The Burning Plain

The feature film debut of Guillermo Arriaga, the screenwriter behind Amores Perros and Babel premiered at the Venice Film Festival. With a stellar cast of actors like Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger, it is about the relationship between two families at the border between the US and Mexico. Themes like guilt, the consequences of shirking responsibility and a lack of ability to come to terms with the past are treated in stylistically assured fashion. The action unfolds in two different time planes, trough which the families are involuntarily connected. jo