Writer/Director Ian Old’s indie feature Burn
Country is a well-made indie feature with excellent performances by
Melissa Leo, James Franco, Thomas Jay Ryan and, especially, newcomer (to me) Dominic Rains.
Rains plays an Afghan immigrant to the U.S., who is
living in a Trumpian Northern California backwoods town with the mother (Leo)
of the reporter (James Oliver Wheatley) for whom he had been an interpreter in
Afghanistan.
This conceit of turning the usual American finding his
way in a foreign land to an Afghan finding his way in America makes for an
interesting story; a frightening one, at that.
Though there is some confusion late in the script, I give
Burn
Country a 3.8 out of 5. Olds is certainly a filmmaker to watch.
I hope you can catch it on Netflix, if it doesn’t get a
theatrical run.
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