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Burning Cane
Directed by
Phillip Michael Youmans
TV-MA
2019
77m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
5.4
91%
37%
5.7
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Amongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son.
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Burning Cane Ratings & Reviews
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
Burning Cane delivers a thoughtful, unyielding statement here about generational trauma, the false promise of religion, and the dire circumstances facing the rural poor.
The New York Review of Books
Casey Gerald
If every great story ends by starting a new story, then Phillip Youmans has succeeded on two levels with Burning Cane: we want to know what Helen has done. Even more, we want to know what Mr. Youmans will do next.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Perhaps it's his youth, but the way Youmans refuses to adhere to filmmaking convention displays a confidence that is often breathtaking.
Chicago Reader
Adam Mullins-Khatib
Youmans, who was 17 while making the film, presents not only an advanced visual language and style for his age but a striking emotional nuance in the portrayal of his characters...
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
Deeply moving and a little bit tragic.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Amy Nicholson
This film feels like a grown man coming back and trying to understand his childhood. This [director] was 17!... It's deeply astonishing.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Even when the images edge toward the self-consciously authorial... there's always something to latch onto... "Burning Cane" also gets us excited about what else Youmans can do.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Youmans... depicts these harrowing emotional crises in dramatic fragments and shadow-drenched, often oblique images; they suggest his anguish at a legacy of male frustration, violence, rage, and self-destruction...
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
It's the blurriness of "Burning Cane-"alongside its confident sharpness-that makes it so distinctive.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The people in Youmans' film complicate a simple plot summary by presenting more than one face to the world, and to the camera.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
"Burning Cane" is short and difficult. It does not aspire to entertain. Its realism is shot through with a constant dull ache.
TheWrap
Candice Frederick
Outside Tillman's homily, made magnificent and effectively hypocritical through Pierce's gripping performance, the discourse falls flat and strangely trivial at times given the context.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Fagerholm
God is destined to forever be a complicated subject for most mortals, yet there's no question this film has made me a believer in the boundless artistic potential of its creator.
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
Without question, Youmans is courageous, hard-working, and committed to his vision. How much talent he has will be clearer when he stops trying to write like William Faulkner and use the camera like Claire Denis.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
"Burning Cane"... isn't a major work, yet it's a movie of minor fascinations and seductions; it exerts the pull of a natural-born filmmaker's eye.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Would be a noteworthy debut even from a director twice Youmans' age.
The Playlist
Carlos Aguilar
The strengths of "Burning Cane" are often also its weaknesses, but it would be an impressive debut at any age.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
[Phillip] Youmans' premise and maturity go well beyond his years. He puts his characters in an angst that hovers over the entire production.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
A compelling 78-minute snapshot of Southern poverty and grief, 19-year-old director Phillip Youmans' debut "Burning Cane" hovers in textures more than plot.
812filmreviews
Robert Daniels
Youmans' potential has no limits.
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