The storytelling, cinematography and performances make a striking impact.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 19, 2019

A hushed and restrained portrait of grief and confusion that finds, if only for a moment, a respite for a weary and lonely heart who discovers that it's never too late to start over.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 3, 2019

This low-key, noteworthy soul-searching romancer is undoubtedly profound and passionate in its depiction. Refreshingly, Desert Bride's ultimate payoff is its willingness to grasp the consciousness of aging womanhood once resigned to its stagnant confines

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 20, 2018

García delivers something special in the central role.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

The Desert Bride is charming and life affirming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2018

In this low-key Argentine drama, a live-in maid from Chile (the spellbinding Paulina García) faces a new chapter in life.

| Sep 25, 2018

Outstanding portrayal of the character that Paulina García incarnates and a modest look at the provisional moments of fulfillment that, on occasion, provides chance. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 30, 2018

Brief and inspiring. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2018

An intimate and simple ode to personal emancipation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 27, 2018

There are many intense and lucid moments throughout the film, but all beautiful and natural. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2018

This is one of the great screen romances in recent memory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2018

"The Desert Bride" is nothing complicated, but in its unforced humanity, visually poetic landscapes and agreeably metaphoric storytelling suggests the intimate pleasures of a well-turned short story.

| May 10, 2018

Garcia's nuanced performance is indeed a marvel to watch, guided by Atán and Pivato's humanistic direction and storytelling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2018

A road movie story that aims toward simplistic and rather formulaic romantic wish-fulfillment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 4, 2018

A road movie of sorts, it steers clear of melodrama or sentimentality, but it also never risks hitting anything.

| May 3, 2018

Though it runs a mere 78 minutes, The Desert Bride is strikingly languorous and open-ended, its graceful silences and unhurried rhythms speaking to the intriguing identity crisis of its protagonist.

| May 2, 2018

"The Desert Bride's" unassuming tale winds up as enticingly unfamiliar as a shoal of opalescent sea glass somehow washed up in inland barrens.

| May 1, 2018

As two-handers go, the film has a moderately compelling pair of performances at its center, with Claudio Rissi's take on a fun-loving road warrior providing an amusing, if obvious, counterpoint to Paulina García's reserved homebody.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 27, 2018

There's rather too much use of very shallow-focus camerawork (and yes, we get it that Teresa's world-view lacks a certain depth of field), but this is a minor quibble in a film that is a small delight, a perfect cinematic short story.

| Jan 10, 2018

The wispy story could almost be reduced to an anecdote. Yet in the leisurely flow of Andrea Chignoli's edit, it's imbued with gorgeous, undulating rhythms that pull you in.

| Jan 10, 2018