Mexican Film Festival 2017 (The Projector)
Desert
Desierto
Rating
NC16 Coarse Language and Violence
Language
Spanish with English subtitles
Cast
Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo
Synopsis
Son of film virtuoso director, Alfonso Cuaron and co-writer of sci-fi spectacle, GRAVITY, Jonas Cuaron’s debut feature DESIERTO brings us crashing down to earth to the harsh and unforgiving landscape that is the US-Mexico border. Starring leading man, Gael Garcia Bernal as one of a group of illegal border-crossers, being viciously hunted down by a confederate flag-waving psychopath.
A tightly-paced thriller, loosely-inspired by real-life American “vigilantes” who gun down innocent people in the name of patriotism, DESIERTO is a piercingly timely portrait of bigotry and hatred and those who suffer as a result.