Desierto , the directorial debut ofGravityscreenwriter Jonás Cuarón , is a unsanded and roaring survival story set against the U.S.-Mexican border . The movie stars Gael García Bernal ( Y Tu Mamá También , Mozart in the Jungle ) as Moises , a father heroic to cross into the States to reunify with his Word , and Jeffrey Dean Morgan ( The Good Wife , The Walking Dead ) as an American vigilance man who shoots Mexican immigrant for summercater . When the Orion spots Moises and other undocumented workers traveling through the desert , he grabs his rifle and bloodthirsty dog and goes to work .
The first trailer forDesiertogives you a horse sense of Cuarón ’s black , sun - baked vision . Between glimpses of Bernal work for his life and Morgan blasting away from invisible vantage point are words of praise from the picture ’s festival rill . " Swift , central , and inexorable , " declare one critic .
That ’s how the American preview sellsDesierto . But in Mexico , Cuarón ’s picture is get a decidedly different push . If you were n’t already meditate the talking points of our current presidential election as you watched a sadistic jingoist blow away his fellow military man , the Mexican trailer will clear things up .
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" The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everyone else ’s problem , " say the narration , furnish by Donald Trump ’s campaign track quotes . " When Mexico ship its citizenry , they ’re not send their best , they ’re sending their people with lots of problems . They ’re bring drugs , they ’re make for criminal offense , they ’re rapists . It ’s got ta bar , and it ’s get ta blockade tight . "
A second Mexican laggard , issue and released by the outside allocator Cinépolis Distribución , is even more worrisome . swap pic critic quotes for rah - rah fan reaction on Twitter is an en style merchandising manoeuvre – seeBatman v Superman ’s post - releasecommercials– but thisDesiertoclip culled social medium for the most shocking display of American patriotism , intensify the pulsate direction on display . Beware : this catch ugly .
" This guy is a full grinder , " one user order of Morgan ’s gunmen . This is the worldDesiertoenters when it hits theaters on October 14 .
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