{"id":89936,"date":"2022-09-16T20:12:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/particular-desert-2021-review-a-fantastic-study-of-the-fragility-of-masculinity-marked-by-contrasts\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T20:12:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T14:42:23","slug":"particular-desert-2021-review-a-fantastic-study-of-the-fragility-of-masculinity-marked-by-contrasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/particular-desert-2021-review-a-fantastic-study-of-the-fragility-of-masculinity-marked-by-contrasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Particular desert (2021) review: a fantastic study of the fragility of masculinity marked by contrasts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As much as other formal or narrative aspects may captivate, a feature film will fail in its attempt to connect with the audience if it does not have some characters to match<\/strong>. Ultimately, they are the drivers of the story and the true catalysts of an emotion without which the viewing experience would end up being empty and meaningless.<\/p>\n

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Fully aware of this, many authors from different media do not hesitate to put convoluted plots and grandiloquent conflicts in the background to give shape to what is called “character studies”<\/strong>; stories focused on immersing themselves in the minds of their protagonists and outlining their evolutionary arcs in greater depth.<\/p>\n

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Starting from this base, but without neglecting a very powerful internal conflict, the Brazilian filmmaker Aly Muritiba shapes ‘private desert’<\/strong>; a extraordinary queer drama<\/strong> in which, through his dry look at the society of his native land, he exposes the fragility of the concept of masculinity while recalling that love, prejudices aside, is still love.<\/p>\n

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‘Private desert’ is a film of faces, crosses and opposite poles that, little by little, and with an enviable delicacy and precision, end up meeting to give shape to what is undoubtedly one of the best titles that will hit our screens this year 2022<\/strong>. A game of masks that fall under their own weight and in which form, background and characters row in the same direction.<\/p>\n

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Muritiba’s mise-en-sc\u00e8ne, impeccable and tremendously effective, aligns perfectly with the sense of duality<\/strong> that reigns in the film; playing the card of carelessness and austerity in some of its darkest and crudest passages to make way for a rarefied beauty when the story requires it, enhancing an emotion of those that leave with the heart in a fist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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