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    In Lee Chang-dong's Dreamlike 'Burning,' Dread Is A Fire That Burns Slow And Cold

    Director/co-writer Lee Chang-dong adapts a haunting Murakami short story about a young man drawn into the lives of a woman, her cat and a handsome, mysterious stranger.
    by Glen Weldon Oct 25, 2018 3 minutes
    Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in) goes for a run in <em>Burning</em>.

    Boy meets girl. Boy watches girl's cat while she travels. Girl returns home with another boy.

    Things get weird.

    The first boy, Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in) is a writer, or is trying to be. His favorite author is Faulkner. (is based on the 1992 story "Barn Burning" by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, which is itself a riff on the Faulkner story of the same name.) The girl, Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo), went to school with

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