Review of Burning Man (2011) by Anna B — 02 Sep 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.