Burning

Lee Chang-dong's first film in eight years takes a Murakami short story and stretches it into a 148-minute psychological tightrope. Steven Yeun's gentle, oblique villain is the film's central mystery — and the ending refuses to confirm anything, which is precisely its devastating effect.

• Based on Haruki Murakami's short story "Barn Burning".
• Won the FIPRESCI Critics' Prize at Cannes.
• Steven Yeun's first major role outside The Walking Dead.
• Filmed over six months to capture seasonal shifts.
• Lee's first feature in eight years.

• "Do you really want to know?"
• "I burn greenhouses."
• "You should be able to dance like that."
• "Hunger is hunger of the spirit."
• "The world is a mystery to me."