A summer love, picturesque woodland setting and a dark secret makes The Burning Season a film with oodles of intrigue that keeps you wondering.
The familiar team of director Sean Garrity and Jonas Chernick return to the Glasgow Film Festival yet again but this time with something distinctly different to last year’s The End of Sex.
Of course, sex is indeed on the cards in this story where we are introduced to Jb (Jonas Chernick) and Alena (Sara Canning) who begin an illicit affair and rekindle a summer love at the same cabin retreat where they met as teenagers.
In that summer they met it would prove to be pivotal as they now share a secret that binds them.
Chernick stars and also takes on script duties with Diana Frances in a tense drama that from the beginning makes its mark in its unusual way of telling the story backwards.
The familiar team of director Sean Garrity and Jonas Chernick return to the Glasgow Film Festival yet again but this time with something distinctly different to last year’s The End of Sex.
Of course, sex is indeed on the cards in this story where we are introduced to Jb (Jonas Chernick) and Alena (Sara Canning) who begin an illicit affair and rekindle a summer love at the same cabin retreat where they met as teenagers.
In that summer they met it would prove to be pivotal as they now share a secret that binds them.
Chernick stars and also takes on script duties with Diana Frances in a tense drama that from the beginning makes its mark in its unusual way of telling the story backwards.
- 2/29/2024
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In the present-day-adjacent time period in the unspecified city where Fingernails unfolds, a newish technology has been embraced by a growing number of couples. Promising “no more uncertainty” and “no more divorce,” the simple but physically daunting test enables people to be sure they’ve found a true love connection. All that’s required is the removal of one fingernail from each participant. There will be blood, yes, but mainly there’s a well-written and beautifully performed investigation of yearning and the mysterious realm that apps and algorithms can only profess to quantify.
Greek writer-director Christos Nikou has assembled a small, ace ensemble, led by the endlessly compelling Jessie Buckley, for a modestly scaled feature spun from smart provocation and deep feeling. (After its fest-circuit bows, the film is set for an early November release in theaters and on Apple TV+.) Working with British screenwriter Sam Steiner and Stavros Raptis,...
Greek writer-director Christos Nikou has assembled a small, ace ensemble, led by the endlessly compelling Jessie Buckley, for a modestly scaled feature spun from smart provocation and deep feeling. (After its fest-circuit bows, the film is set for an early November release in theaters and on Apple TV+.) Working with British screenwriter Sam Steiner and Stavros Raptis,...
- 9/2/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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