FINANCIAL TIMES (Feb 14 2009)
By NIGEL ANDREWS

The best features I have seen this year have a strong and single signature and many of these have shown out of competition. Henrik Hellström and Fredrik Wenzel's hypnotic Burrowing, in the Forum section, attempts to plant the spirit of Thoreau's Walden in Sweden's Metroland. Scenes of bizarre back-to-nature lyricism punctuate the tale of a growing boy: lots of mud-sloshing and tree-hugging at the secret heart of a suburban world where forests are things that usually end up in Ikea catalogues. Pantheism is alive and well, at least in some defiant souls.

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FINANCIAL TIMES (Feb 16 2009)
By NIGEL ANDREWS

And I saw again, because my admiration for Henrik Hellström and Fredrik Wenzel's 75-minute gem grew through invidious comparison with other films, Sweden's extraordinary Burrowing. In a tale of the suburban versus the sylvan, prologued by a Thoreau quote, a new kind of cinema grows before our eyes. There is barely a plot, merely the movements and voice-overs of three or four vari-aged characters, choreographed near-abstractly as "children of life" midway between nature and nurture. It is lyrical, mysterious, dazzlingly photographed and, in every sense that cinema can bear, poetic.

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