2022
Unrated
Kino Lorber
2 h 1 m

2022
Unrated
Kino Lorber
2 h 1 m

Summary Sara is a genderfluid blue-collar worker who lives as her male birth identity Robson by day while caring for her religious grandmother in Sobradinho, a small town in the northeast of Brazil. Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in southern metropolis Curitiba, has been placed on unpaid leave after a violent incident that’s all over th...

Drama

Directed By: Aly Muritiba

Written By: Henrique Dos Santos, Aly Muritiba

2022
Unrated
Kino Lorber
2 h 1 m

2022
Unrated
Kino Lorber
2 h 1 m

Private Desert

Name: Private Desert
Genre: Drama
Released: 2022-08-26
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Rating: 66
Cast: Antonio Saboia, Pedro Fasanaro, Thomas Aquino, Laila Garin, Zezita Matos

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Aly Muritiba

Written By: Henrique Dos Santos, Aly Muritiba

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews

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Los Angeles Times

Sep 14, 2022

Buoyed by two superb performances, writer-director Aly Muritiba’s tenderly electrifying new feature is part sensual queer romance and part moving character study.

By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW

Film Threat

Sep 2, 2022

Couple the brilliant construction with the intense performances from Saboia and Fasanaro, and we have one of the more memorable foreign romance films in recent memory.

By Sumner Forbes FULL REVIEW

The Film Stage

May 26, 2022

So many scenes unfold with static frames to give actors our undivided attention, letting them evolve emotionally without unnecessary cuts undermining authenticity.

By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW

Variety

Aug 16, 2022

The film comes alive in its second half, which deepens and complicates the story we thought we were watching, about a disgraced cop trying to run away from the violence that’s set to cost him his job and his reputation. For some, the tender empathy that runs through the film’s latter half may not be enough to offset its choice of sympathetic leading man.

By Manuel Betancourt FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

Aug 22, 2022

Aly Muritiba’s film is always telling the viewer that death-ness and trans-ness bear the intimacy of Siamese sisters.

By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW

Movie Nation

Aug 16, 2022

Director and co-writer Aly Muritiba’s melodrama is slow — 29 minute-long PROLOGUE slow — formulaic, dated and obvious considering “The Crying Game” opened 30 years ago north of the equator. But tender performances might reward those patient enough to sit through its scenic, formulaic and dramatically-limited longueurs.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

TheWrap

Sep 8, 2022

Nothing about the interactions between Daniel and his former pen pal in the second half of the movie are even remotely believable, and so the rosy climax of Private Desert enters the dangerous realm of fantasy and wish-fulfillment, revealing that the makers of this film are as recklessly naïve and morally questionable as their protagonists.

By Dan Callahan FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Pandora Filmes, Muritiba Filmes, Fado Filmes, Grafo Audiovisual, Anacoluto

Release Date Aug 26, 2022

Duration 2 h 1 m

Rating Unrated

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Website https://grafoaudiovisual.com/en/cinema/deserto-particular-2/

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Awards

CinEuphoria Awards

• 3 Wins & 17 Nominations

Prêmio Guarani

• 3 Wins & 15 Nominations

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize

• 1 Win & 8 Nominations

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Antonio Saboia

Daniel Moreira

Pedro Fasanaro

Robson, Sara

Thomas Aquino

Fernando

Laila Garin

Juliana

Zezita Matos

Tereza (Grandmother)

Sandro Guerra

Pastor Ailton

Luthero Almeida

Everaldo

Otavio Linhares

Pencai

Cynthia Senek

Débora

Flavio Bauraqui

Oswaldo

Leo Miranda

Thiago

Jandir Santin

Arthur

Mazé Portugal

Cida

Michelle Pucci

Luciana

Mauro Zanatta

Comandante

Barbara Borgga

Dona Arlete

Francisco Fernandes

Silvio

Hertz Félix

Bank Manager

Deija

Dionete

Kátia Gonçalves

Opiner

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