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    Review: Lee Chang-dong's 'Burning' is a mesmerizing drama of rage, confusion and thwarted desire

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Nov 05, 2018 5 minutes

    Early on in "Burning," Lee Chang-dong's masterpiece of psychological unease, Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo), a young woman teaching herself the art of pantomime, peels and eats an invisible tangerine. The trick, she tells her companion, Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in), is not to pretend that you're holding a tangerine, but "to forget that there isn't a tangerine."

    The moment comes straight from Haruki Murakami's 1983 short story "Barn Burning," which Lee and his co-writer, Oh Jung-mi, have skillfully expanded and transplanted from Japan to their native South Korea. But the ideas that the scene introduces, about the challenges of perception and the limitations of memory, are uniquely fascinating to consider within the confines of a cinema screen.

    With unusual rigor for an artist working in a visual medium, Lee

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