Title: Desierto Adentro (The Desert Within)
Rating (out of 100): 60
Mood: disturbed, sad, quiet
Website: http://www.discoveringlatinamerica.com/dlaff/schedule/event.php?id=217&date=2008-12-03&limit=9
Timeout / Culture Critic: http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/85952/the-desert-within.html / na
(Spanish with subtitles). – Part of the Discovering Latin American Movie Festival in London (through Dec 7) - saw this yesterday. What an incrediblly imaginative, dark and disturbing movie. It's like watching a train crash but slow motion. You know what's going to happen as there are clues along the way inevitably but you still can't help but watch it. The combination of drawing / real life imagery was definitely inventive and beautiful as was the desert landscape and setting of the movie. Overall, a very disturbing movie about faith and guilt. The religious overtones of the whole movie got to be a bit much for me but it's interesting how the film even incorporates a quote from Nietzsche. Overall, while there was much emotional drama in the film, it almost seemed like a soap opera. Overly dramatic. And even though it was beautiful, it was incredibly disturbing. I'm sure I'm a "better person" with eyes that are more open after having seen the film, but overall it was not one of my favorites. At the end, I felt disturbed but benefitting from any emotional catharsis.
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