Desierto

2015
R
1h 28m

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6.1/10

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Gael García Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Desierto (2015)

A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.

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A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

11K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 2 wins & 22 nominations

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Trivia
Not a single scene has been shot indoors.

Goofs
Sam is firing an M1 Garand, chambered in either .30 '06 or .308 (It's a sporterized version). Despite using such a heavy caliber, he demonstrates almost no recoil from his shots. Worse, he makes shots at distances that would likely only hit their target if he was in a prone (laying down) rather than a standing or kneeling position.

Quotes
Sam: [putting his rifle down] Welcome to the land of the free.

Connections
Featured in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Emily Blunt/Gael Garcia Bernal/Phantogram (2016)

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5/10

TIFF 2015 -- Desierto: Running in the desert while being chased by a racist with a sniper

Gael García Bernal is one of many migrants who tries to cross into the United States in 'Desierto'. While he and many other migrants attempt to enter the United States via badlands and flat desert, the majority of them are picked off by a crazy, racist sniper. Bernal and a few others attempt to flee the crazy racist before they're left to rot in the desert.

This film pretty much had no script. What ever little dialogue it had wasn't terribly important, and the villain of the piece talked either to himself or his dog about getting out of the Hell that he lived in while near the border. This was confusing, considering how much he was defending his land from migrants, yet he wanted to leave the Hell that he was living in.

Also, when one watches a film in a packed theatre and people are laughing at important scenes, then either something was lost in translation, or the movie is a farce, and this movie wasn't lost in translation by any means. The villain was plain terrible.

At the Toronto International Film Festival, it won the the FIPRESCI Prize for Special Presentations. Feel like I need an explanation about this.

While it was shot in a decent way, one hopes that Jonás Cuarón pieces together a better script in the future.