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Desierto
When their truck suddenly breaks down, a migrant named Moises leads 13 others on a trek through the harsh terrain along the U.S.-Mexico border. But then they encounter a man who has taken border patrol duties into his own racist hands.
22 April 1966, Seattle, Washington, USA
2 October 1967, USA
30 November 1978, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
5 July 1990, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
January 09, 2017
Desierto is a brutal, relentless and pared-back survival thriller bursting with primal energy.
January 02, 2017
Cuarón's second feature suggests that he's talented enough to follow in his father's footsteps. But though Desierto may entertain, it hardly slays.
October 14, 2016
There's been a surprisingly wide range of works with extra weight in a deeply polarized year. Desierto is the nastiest of them all, but it's also the shallowest.
January 12, 2017
Although the proposal is effective and assembled with style and a brutal beauty, it lacks a social or ethical intention. [Full review in Spanish]
January 02, 2017
A film where the director bets on a cinematic game between contemplation and adrenaline that comes out well. [Full review in Spanish]
October 15, 2016
A generic thriller that happens to be wrapped in political packaging. That packaging is sometimes more interesting than the thrills themselves.
January 05, 2017
A narration and a spectacle of tension and action of efficiency reinforced by a certain distance. [Full review in Spanish]
October 13, 2016
It's not particularly nuanced. In fact, its lack of nuance is its most distinguishing characteristic.
October 14, 2016
Subtlety sits this one out.
October 15, 2016
Give "Desierto" credit for this: There has never been a more appropriate time for a tense thriller about Mexican immigrants avoiding the murderous advances of a gun-wielding American lunatic.
October 14, 2016
Ugly and ham-fisted where it should be exciting and edifying, "Desierto" comes up short both as blood-soaked entertainment and as a blood-stirring polemic.