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The Burning Plain is a american film of genre Drama directed by Guillermo Arriaga released in USA on 29 august 2008 with Charlize Theron
The Burning Plain (2008)
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Add to a movie listThe Burning Plain is a 2008 drama 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 as 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 a limited theatrical release in 2009.
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Typical of Arriaga's works, this film is told in a non-linear narrative, where events are revealed out of sequence. The following plot summary is in chronological order, and thus does not reflect the exact sequence of the events as seen on screen.Actors
Charlize Theron
(Sylvia / Mariana)
Kim Basinger
(Gina)
Jennifer Lawrence
(Young Mariana)
Joaquim de Almeida
(Nick Martinez)
José María Yazpik
(Carlos Alarid)
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