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Critics Consensus: Burning Bush takes an engrossing -- and ultimately uplifting -- ground-level look at a real-life struggle against totalitarianism.
Critic Consensus: Burning Bush takes an engrossing -- and ultimately uplifting -- ground-level look at a real-life struggle against totalitarianism.
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (1)
Just because Eastern Bloc period pieces are almost always stately and elegiac doesn't mean a largely compelling movie like this shouldn't still manage to surprise us once or twice over the course of four hours.
Enthralling ...
Holland never risks overlooking the hardship that comes with being on the right side of history. "Burning Bush" is a riposte to the idea that there's anything beautiful about dying for your beliefs.
Elegantly scripted with an edge of biting gallows humor by Stepan Hulik, Burning Bush blends an intimate domestic drama with a thrilling Cold War procedural ...
An absorbing docudrama that maintains a gratifying equilibrium between hope and cynicism.
"Burning Bush" really isn't intended for American viewers, and you may need to do a little homework or scramble to keep up. Generally speaking, it's highly worth it.
... inert and has no sense of flow, and this despite the wavy dramatic effect caused by the three-part scrunching.
Brilliant, ambitious, and moving.
... a return to form for Holland, whose great films of the eighties and nineties (Angry Harvest, 1985, Europa Europa, 1990) combined the political, social and personal with a fiery volatility.
It's a massive story of secret heroism, perfect for pop cinema-and with Holland's film, the time for movies to explore it may be nigh.
In its focus on everyday citizens, Burning Bush kindles and then fans a flickering hope for the masses of individuals down and out, waiting and wanting to rise up, consumed not by hate or fear but a desire for a fairer system and better lives.
Political thriller, procedural, emotional drama and rousing cry for basic human rights and values, "Burning Bush" is a deep investigative look at gross abuses of power in late '60s communist Czechoslovakia and those that fought against it.
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