Desierto
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| Directed by | Jonás Cuarón |
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| Music by | Woodkid |
| Cinematography | Damian Garcia |
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| Distributed by | STX Entertainment |
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94 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
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| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $4.2 million |
Desierto is a 2015 Mexican thriller film co-written and directed by Jonás Cuarón. It was produced by Cuarón together with his father Alfonso and his uncle Carlos. The film stars Gael García Bernal (also executive producer) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) for Special Presentations, and was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
What begins as a hopeful journey by Mexican migrant workers looking to seek a better life by crossing the US border illegally, quickly becomes a fight for survival, when the unarmed men and women are chased across the desert terrain by Sam, a merciless rifle-toting vigilante and his faithful, but equally vicious Malinois, Tracker.
The film was first released at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015. In December 2015, STX Entertainment announced that it would release the film in North American theaters the following March. The film was released in France and Mexico in April 2016 and had grossed $2.8 million as of 15 May 2016. The North American release was delayed until 14 October 2016.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 60%, based on 66 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The site's consensus reads "Desierto's thought-provoking themes and refreshing perspective are unfortunately offset by a predictable plot and thinly written characters." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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