Guillermo Arriaga’s “The Burning Plain,” starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger was apparently warmly received by most critics at the Venice film festival.
We just wrote about it yesterday as Omar from the Mars Volta contributed to the soundtrack.
It’s the first film Arriaga has directed on his own and his first since acrimoniously splitting with his longtime filmmaking partner Alejandro González Iñárritu (Arriaga wrote all of his big films, “Amores Perros,” “21 Grams” and “Babel”) and the credit over the “genius” behind these lauded pictures soon led to a falling out between the two of them.These guys just need to grow up and get over each themselves. And frankly, if you parse the original NYTimes piece that chronicled their feud, Arriaga sort of sounded like he was feeling sour-ego grapes because Iñárritu was receiving more press than he was. Maybe the warm glow of Venice will get him over all that past nonsense. As predicatble as Arriaga’s everything’s-connected interweaving stories have become, they’re still rather powerful via Mr. Iñárritu.