Burning

Name-dropping Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald, deliveryman Jonhsu hopes to be a writer himself some day. He falls for a childhood friend, Haemi, who heads off to Africa and returns with Ben, a rich Gatsby-like figure who immediately raises Jonhsu’s suspicions. And then Haemi disappears…

Winner of the Fipresci Prize in Cannes this year, this elegant and enigmatic thriller by one of South Korea’s leading filmmakers is based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, inspired by William Faulkner’s 1939 story “Barn Burning.”