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★
There's a moment in Salaryman that stopped me cold, and not in a good way. The director, Allegra Pacheco, finds men in suits completely unconscious on the pavement, felled by sheer exhaustion after brutal shifts that blur into nights that blur into days. And rather than let that
Genre Drama
★½ — Memories of a Burning Body (2024)
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