Directed by Chang-dong Lee Burning is a wonderful, tense character study.  It's a thriller in some sense, though not initially.  Such genre construction only develops over time from Jong-su's (Ah-In Yoo) obsession with and dissatisfaction over losing a girl he sleeps with, Hae-mi (Jong-seo Jeon).  She's a classmate from middle school whom he once called ugly. … Continue reading Burning (2018)