Private Desert

"Private Desert" tells the story of an off-duty police officer under internal investigation about a case of bad behavior. His life is a complete mess, jobless, looking after a retired and sick father, plus he's in a cultural shock with his young sister. His only escape is online dating with a mysterious girl. Feeling completely under pressure from the development of his case, he decides to travel across the country to find the girl who he considers to be the only real tangible thing in his current life. In his search, he finds that life is made of many shapes and colors.

This film is about searching, discovering what we are, where we came from. No matter your race, your sex, your age, the color of your eyes or hair, we have to find ourselves within ourselves. We don't know what we really are until we face our reality. Also, that love is a feeling and not an object.

Beautiful and amazing performance by Antonio Saboia as Daniel and Pedro Fasanaro as Robson. Mr. Fasanaro shines and his innocent and angelical looks is the perfect balance to the harshness of Mr. Saboia (the police officer). It also reflects the contrast of northeastern and southern of Brazil.

There are some issues with the screenplay and continuity but overall Aly Muritiba was able to deliver a very human film.

"However, Daniel's turnabout feels sketchy and is insufficiently spelt out, Muritiba applies a tacky sex scene to vicariously bear out Robson's irreplaceability to Daniel, which overrides the blinkered male/female distinction, then, just when Robson feels dismally dejected, he can be lifted up to finally embark on a new journey from the dead-end status quo, and it is a relief that the pair's happy ending is not staying together but both find new courage and purpose from each other, to brave their kismet paved with impediments ahead, they might be reunited in the future, but at that particular moment, Muritiba is markedly astute to leave the story as where it is, a compelling, edifying story about sexual fluidity that hits like a bang to navel-gazers, but serves as a delectable dish to the queer cinema."

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Without many words but in a very beautiful way in the first act Aly Murityba introduces us to Daniel ( Antônio Saboia ) a military policeman from Curitiba in the cold city of the South, day with cold color palettes as well as the life of Daniel who, suspended from the police, takes care of his father who suffers something like Alzheimer's, and has a very strong virtual passion with Sarah .

During every presentation of the names of director actors studio etc between the first act and the second, we have Daniel's trip , we left Curitiba for a small town in the northeastern interior where Sarah ( Pedro Fasanaro ) supposedly resides, in a warm place as well as her passion , changes if the color palette ( that proves great photography ) Daniel places posters to find Sarah who for some reason no longer responds to messages from Daniel.

We see that Sarah also has difficulties living with her grandmother, evangelical and sees her sexual option as a disease, just as his father left him for the same reason besides working during the day in manual service.

Great performances, great track that puts ambient local music and a classic total eclipse of the hearth by Bonnie Tyler in the meetings that are very touching , great direction and editing with cuts suddenly during Daniel's long journey.

A complete film, in the right measure that deals with the search for personality of a boy from the northeastern interior, who seeks who he is but in fact we also see that the man, strong, male and of traditional military family also ends up "meeting" at the end of the film , in a sensationally acted scene, we see all that answer without having to write a word. Sensational.

A police academy instructor had a violent episode with a recruit, and a video of that incident went viral. He is now suspended, under investigation, and ordered to undergo psychological evaluation. Meanwhile, the only person he can talk to is his online girlfriend, who is now ghosting him. With only a town as a guide, he drives over 1000 km. To search for her.

A possible problem with ghosting someone is that the ghostee may try to find you and make things worse. Maybe a final goodbye message would be helpful?

The two hours of this film flew by without a second of boredom. The mundane life of Daniel, looking after Dad, shopping, seeing his sister, was fascinating as was the road trip and subsequent meeting with Robson.

Family dynamics were true to life and provoked real emotion in the case of both protagonists. I especially liked Robson's granny who transcended her beliefs for the sake of her ward.

It's hard to be particular about the film as I don't want to include spoilers. I have to say that I had guessed what the problem about meeting up was before it was revealed. And afterwards, the issue was dealt with realistically and sensitively.

The ending could not have been different and was perfect. Both leads had their own paths to tread but the events leading to the finale were a satisfying conclusion to the film that left a warm glow.

This is an absolute must for someone wanting to see a deeply moving romance.