Costa Rican cinema has grown quietly but steadily, with filmmakers increasingly drawing on personal and political memory to tell distinctly local stories. Memories of a Burning Body is a strong example of that tendency, blending intimate female experience with a raw emotional honesty. See what Macca made of it and the other Costa Rican films below.
Rating: 2.5★
Japan's corporate working culture has been a subject of genuine international concern for decades. The phenomenon of karoshi, death by overwork, entered official Japanese government vocabulary in the 1980s, yet the conditions that produce it have proved extraordinarily resistant to change. The salaryman, that suited, briefcase-carrying archetype
Genre Drama
★½ — Memories of a Burning Body (2024)
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