The Burning Plain 2009 Trailer

he Burning Plain is a 2009 film directed and written by Guillermo Arriaga, the screenwriter of Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), and Babel (2006). The film stars Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Basinger and Joaquim de Almeida. In Arriaga’s directorial debut, he films a story that has multipart story strands woven together like in his previous screenplays. Filming of The Burning Plain began in New Mexico in November 2007, and the film was released in late 2008 in various festivals, before general releases in 2009.

Plot

The film starts off some time in the mid-90′s in a small New Mexico town near the border of Mexico, where we are introduced to Gina (Kim Basinger), a wife and mother to four children. Gina carries out an affair with a local man named Nick Martinez (Joaquim de Almeida), who also has a family of his own, but unbeknownst to the two, Gina’s teenage daughter Mariana (Jennifer Lawrence) finds out about their love affair.

Mariana follows her mother to Nick’s trailer. Knowing the two are inside and in an effort to make them end their affair, she disassembles the gas pipe leading into the trailer, and sets it on fire. The flames eventually reach a gas tank that causes a fiery explosion, consuming the entire trailer and claiming both Nick and Gina’s lives, although her intention wasn’t to kill anybody at all. After their funeral, Mariana and Nick’s own teenage son, Santiago (JD Pardo), slowly begin to develop a relationship of their own. Mariana soon becomes aware that she is pregnant with Santiago’s daughter. The two flee to Mexico amid disapproval from their families and decide to have the baby there, but after she has delivered their daughter, Mariana abandons her family and more or less tries to abandon her own guilt-ridden past by assuming the new name of Sylvia.

Over a decade later, Sylvia (now played by Charlize Theron) works at a high end Portland restaurant. Despite her success, she resorts to sleeping with several different men and thoughts of suicide. After an encounter with Carlos (José María Yazpik), one of Santiago’s friends, he informs her that Santiago was involved in a serious airplane accident in Mexico while crop dusting, and that he has been raising their daughter, named Maria (Tessa Ia), there for all these years. Carlos urges Sylvia to pay him a visit.

Sylvia struggles with her conscience on whether or not she should revisit her past, but after much contemplating, she realizes her mistakes and regrets abandoning her family. With help from her friend Laura (Robin Tunney), Sylvia is able to reunite with her daughter once again, who Carlos has brought along to Portland. They fly over to Mexico, where Sylvia apologizes to Maria for the years she’s been absent in her life. After a night of rest, they arrive at the hospital to see Santiago, who is still in a coma from the accident. Sylvia confesses her past sins by his bedside, unsure if he will ever wake up again. The doctor reassures them that he will pull through, and the story concludes with the signs of hope for the family.

Cast

• Charlize Theron as Sylvia
• Kim Basinger as Gina
• Joaquim de Almeida as Nick Martinez
• John Corbett as John
• Robin Tunney as Laura
• Brett Cullen as Robert
• Danny Pino as Santiago Martinez
• José María Yazpik as Carlos
• Jennifer Lawrence as Mariana
• J.D. Pardo as Young Santiago
• Tessa Ia as Maria Martinez
• Rachel Ticotin as Ana
• Diego J. Torres as Cristobal Martinez
• Rafael Hernandez as Doctor Armendariz

Reception

So far, the film’s reception has been decidedly-mixed. Of the most positive reviews, David Gritten writing for The Daily Telegraph decided that it “has all the right credentials: it is serious-minded and dramatic, with universal themes and a clutch of fine acting performances.” Wendy Ide, writing for The Times that it is an “elegantly structured tale of lives laced together with tragedy and guilt.” Ide also praised Theron’s performance and concluded that it is a “quality production.”According to Time Out, “Arriaga has delivered a compelling and entertaining debut that stays true to his earlier interests.

Genre Drama

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