“Burning Bush”: Czech It Out
I can’t say I have yet, but I intend to. I’m speaking about “Burning Bush,” which Francine Prose describes as “Agnieszka Holland’s brilliant, ambitious, and moving new film, [which] begins at a violent and traumatic moment in Czech history. In the opening scene, a young student stops next to a fountain outside the museum in Prague’s Wenceslas Square, douses himself with gasoline, sets himself on fire, and runs, screaming, into the street, where he collapses. It is January 16, 1969, five months after Soviet tanks had brought an end to the so-called Prague Spring.” The movie is being shown in two parts of two hours each, at Film Forum in New York.
