Desierto - Deadly hunt

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Movie
German title Desierto - Deadly hunt
Original title Desierto
Country of production France , Mexico
original language Spanish , English
Publishing year 2015
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Jonás Cuarón
script Jonás Cuarón,
Mateo Garcia
production Alfonso Cuarón ,
Carlos Cuarón ,
Jonás Cuarón
music Yoann Lemoine
camera Damian Garcia
cut Jonás Cuarón
occupation

Desierto - Tödliche Hetzjagd (original title Desierto , Spanish for desert or wilderness ) is a thriller by Jonás Cuarón , which premiered in September 2015 as part of the Toronto International Film Festival .

action

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In the Sonoran Desert , several migrants from Mexico cross the border into the United States on foot . They had paid two guides to bring them into the country illegally. When their truck goes on strike in the middle of the desert, they have to walk the rest of the way. No sooner have they crossed the border than a self-appointed border guard and sniper awaits them, who has taken the border patrol into his own hands and shoots eight of them as they run through a salt pan . For those he didn't catch, a merciless struggle for survival begins in the scorching desert in the Mexican-American border region when they are chased by the foreigner-hating redneck and his dog. Among them is Moises, who wanted to get to the United States to finally see his son again and become the leader of the rest of the force. The redneck, a former soldier, seems to win the duel because Moises' troop is getting smaller and smaller.

production

Staff and cast

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Gael García Bernal at the premiere of the film in Toronto Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Gael García Bernal at the premiere of the film in Toronto
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Gael García Bernal at the
premiere of the film in Toronto

The direction was taken over by Jonás Cuarón , the son of the director Alfonso Cuarón . The director thought of the film many years ago, and Cuarón said: “I could only imagine the experience of the Mexican migrants as a horror film.” Cuarón began work on the script about 10 years before the film was released. According to his own statements, his work was inspired by Steven Spielberg's 1971 film Duell , especially by its minimalist staging and simple narrative structure, although this film ultimately has more to tell than just the chase by a tanker.

The Mexican actor Gael García Bernal took on the role of Moises, who has to fight for survival in the desert. The role of Sam, the self-appointed border guard, was cast by Jeffrey Dean Morgan . Alondra Hidalgo , Diego Cataño , Marco Pérez , Oscar Flores and David Lorenzo can also be seen in other roles .

Filming

The film was in the Baja California Desert rotated

The shooting took place from February 2014 in the Baja California desert , a desert region on the Mexican Baja California peninsula.

The duel between Moises and Sam, according to Sofia Glasl from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , is intensified in the film by the alternation of close-up shots and long shots , which break down the war of positions of the opponents in the sun-drenched stone desert.

Film music and sound design

The music for the film was composed by the French electro musician Yoann Lemoine aka "Woodkid" , who is also responsible for the lyrics. The song Land of All , which is included on the soundtrack, was included in the list of candidates (longlist) at the Academy Awards 2017 in the category Best Film Song in December 2016 , from which the members of the Academy will determine the official nominations.

Cuarón also spent a lot of time with the sound designer Sergio Díaz to make the noise an integral part of the film and thus create an exciting atmosphere that the audience can immerse themselves in. It was important to Cuarón that the audience did not perceive the score and the sound design separately, and so Woodkid and Diaz had worked in parallel. Sofia Glasl of the Süddeutsche Zeitung describes the sound design of the film as consisting of breathless gasps and whistling gunshots , which fits seamlessly into the film music, which she describes as throbbing and rumbling, making the film a draining effort.

The music project El Diablo Güero, which was created through a collaboration between the Band of Bitches and Victoria Morales , was inspired by the film music and the words "welcome to the land of the free" and later published a song together.

The soundtrack for the film has a total length of 50:42 min, comprises 12 songs and was released on April 8, 2016.

Title list of the soundtrack

  1. Land of All
  2. The Frontier
  3. Shoot Them Down
  4. tracker
  5. Jump
  6. The Ridge
  7. Dusk talks
  8. False hopes
  9. Flare gun
  10. Web Of Thorns
  11. Sam and Moises
  12. Que Te Mate El Desierto

Marketing and Publishing

The film was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015 , where it celebrated its world premiere. On April 13, 2016, the film was released in French cinemas and two days later in Mexican cinemas. The film was presented at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival from July 2, 2016 and was shown for the first time in Germany in August 2016 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival . A German trailer for the film was released in September 2016. A theatrical release in the USA took place on October 14, 2016. On October 21, 2016, the film was released by Ascot Elite in Germany on DVD and as Blu-ray .

reception

Reviews

Justin Chang of Variety describes the film, which was not approved for young people by the FSK in Germany, as a brutal and merciless hunting thriller that makes no excuses for its political one-sidedness and its end in the gut.

Sofia Glasl from the Süddeutsche Zeitung describes the film as a minimalist survival thriller that makes use of proven character types and action patterns. About Gael García Bernal , who is actually known for quiet character roles, Glasl says that he proves his potential as an action hero in the film when he engages in a bitter fight with his pursuer.

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter, on the other hand, says that the two main actors succeed in expressing their respective perspective sufficiently effectively, but there is no subtext and no nuances are required that make them more than just two action figures, which are in diametrically opposite positions. His colleague Scott Feinberg, on the other hand, gives Desierto a good chance in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2017 Academy Awards , at which the film will enter the race as a Mexican contribution.

Gross profit

The film's worldwide revenue from theatrical screenings has been $ 3 million to date.

Awards

Fenix ​​Film Awards 2016

London Film Festival 2015

  • Nomination for best film in the official competition ( Jonás Cuarón )

Toronto International Film Festival 2015

Taormina Film Festival 2016

  • Awarded the main prize

subjects

Entry into the USA via the Mexican border

Of the 54 million Hispanics who are the largest minority in the United States, 34.5 million were of Mexican origin in 2013 alone. Estimates of illegal immigrants vary between 7 and 20 million. Hundreds of thousands illegally cross the United States' southern border each year .

Bernal, to whom Cuarón had shown the script years ago, feared that the topic could become less topical. In view of Donald Trump's primary campaign , according to Jürgen Neubauer from culturmag.de , Desierto is suddenly brand new, and not only the film, but also the first reactions to it, reflect the current mood that prevails today on both sides of the border . For David Sims of The Atlantic , the film describes a nightmare that could become a reality after Trump made hate speech against Mexicans in the further course of the US presidential election and announced that he would build a wall between Mexico and the US if he won the election . Cuarón's indignation at the events at the border would be both tangible and understandable. Sofia Glasl from the Süddeutsche Zeitung thinks Cuarón becomes politically extremely direct in the film, and his scenario, which she describes as a mixture of exaggerated moments of shock and political explosiveness, hits a nerve in times when Trump is ranting against the Mexicans and gives it one Force that hurts beyond the duration of the film.

Border guards on the US-Mexico border

The self-appointed border guard Sam is repeatedly referred to in the film as a redneck . This term used to refer to poor white farm workers, especially those from the southern states , but has also been used since the turn of the millennium to refer to people generally as zealous reactionaries who are hostile to modernity. Occasionally this happens in connection with conservative white southerners, and a number of these knowingly and proudly refer to themselves as such to underline their origins.

After the surveillance at the border was tightened under Bill Clinton and after September 11, 2001 more than 100 billion dollars were invested in the technical infrastructure, such as heat sensors and surveillance cameras, there are now 21,000 border guards in the USA for whom a culture has become who has developed impunity. Lawmen shoot particularly quickly on the border with Mexico. For the US border guard, which is a federal agency, in addition to trained border guards, a large number of ordinary citizens also work as officials for Customs and Border Control (CBP). Their employees kill and injure almost as many people as the police, but they are almost never prosecuted for this. In many cases of firearms use by CBP officials, research shows that border guards fired too frequently, too quickly and without objective reasonableness. Many of the CBP's border guards are veterans, deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq, while others have been turned away by the military in the past. Former CBP Supreme Controller James Tomsheck describes how it sees itself as a paramilitary force .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Jürgen Neubauer: Film: Jonás and Alfonso Cuarón: Desierto In: culturmag.de, May 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Jonás Cuarón: Trump hizo que 'Desierto' sea más relevant In: excelsior.com.mx, September 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ Jack Giroux: Interview: How Jonás Cuarón's 'Desierto' Was Inspired by Steven Spielberg's 'Duel' In: slashfilm.com, October 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ Jeffrey Dean Morgan in 'Desierto' as the villain In: focus.de, January 15, 2014.
  6. ^ A b c d Sofia Glasl: Redneck is hunting immigrants In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 24, 2016.
  7. ↑ 91 Original Songs Vie for 2016 Oscar In: oscars.org, December 13, 2016.
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  17. ↑ Todd McCarthy, 'Desierto': TIFF Review In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 13, 2015.
  18. ↑ Scott Feinberg: Feinberg Forecast: The Oscar Race Post-Toronto Film Festival In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 16, 2016.
  19. ^ John Hecht: Oscars: Mexico Selects 'Desierto' for Foreign-Language Category In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 14, 2016.
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