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

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

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

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

Sergio Armstrong's widescreen and often symmetrical cinematography frames the two in arresting and vivid ways, taking full advantage of the lonely streets of the town and the bleak, epic expanse of the surrounding desert.

| Jan 10, 2018

It won't scorch the cinema, but this slight story of fragile connection is a charmer that locates heroism in a hesitant smile and dares to suggest that though you might have been diminished by disappointment in the past, what you are is still enough.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 5, 2017