Fresh from his rather tumultuous-sounding split from Girls and its creator Lena Dunham, Christopher Abbott (aka Charlie, Marnie’s entirely too-forgiving on-again-off-again boyfriend) brings us his latest project, the moody and intense ensemble family drama Burma, co-starring Gaby Hoffman, Dan Bittner and young newcomer Jacinta Puga.
of their long-absent father, who disappeared at a critical time almost a decade prior: when their late mother was diagnosed with cancer.Heading up the troubled triumvirate of children is Abbott, playing a drug-addicted underachiever who depends on his ambiguous younger brother (Dan Bittner) to get it together. Of the copious amounts of cocaine snorting he was called upon to do, Abbott had this to say: “The production team came up with a concoction that was really easy to snort!”
Recipient of the Special Jury Recognition prize for Ensemble Cast at SXSW, Puga’s portrait of a modern family is both brooding and bittersweet. The director’s young cousin Jacinta was cast to play Hoffman’s 
daughter Charlie, who shares some amusing banter with Abbott during some of the family moments. “It was definitely a new experience. From watching so much TV I got the feeling of what to do,” Jacinta observes, about her big screen debut.
And her director cousin is thrilled with the result, delivering a thought-provoking and dramatic new film. “Get out there and do it – a lot of people just sit around a lot and wait for things to all come together perfectly,” Carlos says, of the droves of hopeful screenwriters and directors dying to make it, of which he was one himself. “A less-than-perfect script today is better than no script at all!”
—DH