Love blossoms from the dustiest ground in Ulises Rosell's To the Desert (Al Desierto), a likably offbeat return to fiction for the writer-director a decade after his award-winning local success Sofabed (2006). One of a slew of distinguished Argentinian features to bow this fall alongside Lucrecia Martel's Zama, Anahi Berneri's Alanis and Natalia Garagiola's Alanis, this Patagonian picaresque proves that there's cinematic life in that country on both sides of the male-female divide. Questions of gender underpin Rosell's lean, smart and surprising screenplay in this Chilean co-production, which confirms his status as one of Latin America's most quietly...
- 10/4/2017
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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