“I enjoyed every single moment of it. I can tell you that directing was maybe the happiest moment of my professional life. Just arriving on set I had a smile … and it hasn’t vanished until now”

“We experienced the desert and the sun and the extreme cold in the desert to the nonstop rain in Oregon. I think the weather and the landscape also influences the character.” “We never in real life tell stories in a linear way. We tell it always in a decomposed way. I think that cinema is a very young medium and it’s beginning to find its own language and among these languages is the deconstruction of time”

“I have been obsessed with the weight of death over the living ones. My identity is constructed by the people that I love, by the people that surround me. Every time one dies, part of my identity is broken and lost. I am obsessed at how that loss of someone that I love affects my own identity.”

“I don’t have to do it every time, but it’s something that I really enjoy when I feel I meet people where we’re like-minded and we walk the same road and tell the same story.”

“This is the exploration of the mystery of a woman called Sylvia who has an emotional journey that takes her to the extremes. It explores what makes her so damaged”

” is a drama that explores the mysterious connection between several characters separated by time and space: Mariana (), a 16-year-old girl trying to put together the shattered lives of her parents in a Mexican border town; Sylvia (), a woman in Portland who must undertake an emotional odyssey to burnish a sin from her past; Gina, Sylvia’s mother () and Nick (), a couple who must deal with an intense and clandestine affair; and Maria (), a young girl who helps her parents find redemption, forgiveness and love.The film is the first of five U.S. entries to appear in the main competition at the“The Burning Plain” is the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriterwho is best known for his scripts that include well received dramas ““, “s” and ““, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Arriaga also wrote “The Burning Plain.”he told reporters. As well as time, the film explores the elements, each storyline represents either earth, air, fire or water. Landscape is central to the movie which Arriaga initially had titled, “The Four Elements.” Water, earth, wind and fire are present as the story moves back and forth from the searing dryness of New Mexico to the nonstop rain in Portland, Ore.Arriaga said. It also deals with death.Theron, who plays the emotionally-scarred Sylvia in “The Burning Plain”, was also a producer on the film.Basinger, who plays Sylvia in the movie, was not at the press conference in Venice. The movie is told through four converging plot lines, and cuts back and forth through time to reveal Sylvia’s story.Arriaga said. The film, is one of 21 movies competing for the, which will be awarded Sept. 6. Other U.S. films in competition in Venice include ““, directed by Oscar-winnerand starringand, and “” withand directed byalso presents Iraq war drama ““.