metaphoric

Toward the end of Nicholas Racz\’s quirky, quiet, noirish thriller, \”The Burial Society,\” Sheldon Kasner, the film\’s protagonist but certainly not its hero, whines: \”Why can\’t anything ever be easy for me?\” It\’s a line Woody Allen might have used in \”Take the Money and Run,\” but while Sheldon has elements of Allen\’s nebbish-turned-wannabe-thief, he is darker, more complex and far craftier. So is Racz\’s film about death and rebirth, real and metaphoric.