Burning Kiss

A low budget film that transcends it's origins with a visually arresting style of its very own, great performances and a narrative that keeps the audience engaged.

If you're not looking to watch another $200m by the numbers, committee driven blockbuster, this is a unique voice delivering something very much worth your time.

Without spoiling anything, it's worth your time of youre

This is a noir style film about a former detective who searches his dreams for clues to unravelling the mystery of his wife's murder. The movie is filtered through an inferno of hallucinogenic vignettes and set against a distinctively West Aussie backdrop - babes, bitumen, great whites, backyard pools and long hot nights. I loved the way flames and scorching heat are used throughout the film - they're the detective's over-heated insomniac visions, but they're also the lust that brings Max (main suspect for the murder) and Charlotte (detective's daughter) together. But flames and smoke are also used to suggest destruction - of love, memory, lucidity and closure.

This was pretty bad. The storyline says it is "A hallucinogenic summer noir cocktail spiked with suspense", whatever that is supposed to mean. It seems like a collection of unrelated words, in the same way it seemed this film had a collection of unrelated scenes. Some of the scenes were separated by random images, I guess for impact. One of the images looked like it was stolen from Lost Highway. I'm probably wrong.

Anyway, this was horrible. As I write, it scores 3.2 on IMDB. I have no idea how it scores that high.

Burning Kiss is a dark, twisted tale set in Australia. You'll probably only enjoy this film if you have visited the land down under and aren't in the middle of cooking dinner. Sit back, and enjoy the young actors and actresses in their prime.

The dialogue runs over the scenes, so the story line can be confusing. I still don't know if I know the lead? I probably have met him or his brother? Whatever. I can't wait for the squeal. Bring it on.

Well the feeling i had when gaining my first and most important burning kiss, did not taste or create imagination like they present in this movie.

its a film for the aesthetic feinsmacker film critic, with a secret agenda so well hidden that i fell of this horse pretty quick, and ended up chasing lovely women and boobs, that occurs here and there. the filmmusic has a hint of arabian night, or open sesame in the fairytail of ali baba and the 40...... also it has the narrative monolouge and dialouges of a woody allen drama, as well as the slowness of a detective morse episode on detektimen on the norwegian broadcaster. its also related to events of happenings in a bone collectorish novel, where a handicaped person have gained more than a hunch or more specificly psychic abilities to solve and direct his pawns in the right direction, in this case the murderer of a dear female friend.

its a film with fast shifting audiovisual character, shifting music, and themes, spiced up with some special effects, and images of the sun filmed from the nasa helios observatory.

as an art stub, it has really some good technical qualities, espescially on the visual composition, and may therefore be quite a task for the sofa-stretching layman that hungers for comedy and action, love and murder. so with that said , the grumpy old man finds this austalian neo noir something, hard to believe, and at times like glaring at the sun with an unfiltered pair of binoculars. i give 2 stars instead of the whole solarsystem for this dyslectic peace of the earth.