VENICE - OSCAR winners Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron play mother and daughter in The Burning Plain, an intense story of love and betrayal and the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga.
The film is the first of five US entries to appear in the main competition at the Venice film festival, and was warmly applauded by critics and journalists on Friday at a press screening ahead of its red carpet world premiere. -- REUTERS