Burning Men (2019)
6/10
Misses the mark
2 March 2019
I went to a screening followed by Q&A with the Director and others, but didn't bother to stay for the Q&A -- after seeing the movie, I just wasn't interested to know more. It wasn't terrible, it just wasn't very good (hence my 6 out of 10 rating). The camerawork was often tediously jerky: probably intended to be "edgy", but instead just felt amateur. I enjoyed the wide shots evoking the flat East Anglian landscape, but there were too many road movie clichés (e.g. a succession of road signs to chart our heros' progress northwards). It felt like it could have been made in the 1960s or '70s. The frequent close-up POV to-camera shots were straight out of _Peep Show_ (which also has two male leads, pretty female sidekicks, internal monologues, and so on).
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