Private Desert
Private Desert () is a 2021 Brazilian drama film directed by Aly Muritiba. It was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Plot. After he is fired for violence, a policeman searches the country for his online lover who unexpectedly disappeared. Reception. Reviews. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which categorizes reviews only as positive or negative, 100% of 7 reviews are positive. In his review for "Variety", Manuel Betancourt said that "this Brazilian drama is a welcome and assured intervention into that country's calcified ideals about desire  and masculinity." Choice for Oscar. After the announcement of the film's selection for the 2022 Oscars, which was announced on October 14, Waldemar Dalenogare Neto said he declared he was rooting for the film, but criticized on Twitter the way in which the choice was made, with a three-week delay and an extensive list of titles discussed at the last minute. It was later announced that the film's director and crew had traveled to the United States to present the film at film festivals and special screenings. On December 7, 2021, Kino Lorber announced the acquisition of  the film's distribution rights for Canada and the United States. On December 9, Dalenogare published a video review on YouTube, rating the film an 8/10 and said that of the 12 titles (out of 15) he watched from the season that were pre-selected to represent Brazil at the Oscars, "Deserto Particular" it was the best. Still in the critic, he pointed out the fact that he had previously sent the Brazilian Academy of Cinema an email asking it to make the choice of the film to represent the country at the Oscars sooner, because the nominees need, in  addition to quality, a lot of campaign in the United States, and Brazil was one of the last to send the chosen title. But there was no response and Brazil lost time due to the three weeks that the Brazilian academy reserves just to fill out a registration form. On December 21, 2021, director Aly Muritiba commented on Twitter about the experience of the film's campaign in the United States: "One of the things I learned is that it's about cinema, yes, but not only, actually, much less. about planning, timing, support, money. It's not enough to  have a good movie." Aly Muritiba also mentioned in her series of tweets the millions of dollars that South Korea spent to promote "Parasite" (which won an Oscar in 2020) and asked ANCINE (Agência Nacional do Cinema, an official agency of the federal government of Brazil) to think about "the creation of a line of funding to finance the campaign of the next films chosen for the race" so as not to be "deluding". When placing and commenting on the film on her YouTube favorites list of 2021, said that the film did not make the Oscar final list due  to lack of campaign, "but they don't know what they missed". In the same video, Boscov mentioned "First Cow"'s Oscar snub: "It's further proof that the Academy (which organizes the Oscars) can't see anything they don't put right up their nose (with campaign)." Possible movie spoiler in the press. There is a feature of one of the characters in the film that was not disclosed in the film's campaign in Brazil, so it could be considered a spoiler, but such detail appeared in an advertisement in the United States. In Brazil, Isabela Boscov reported  this detail in her YouTube video review and said that it does not interfere with the film experience, Waldemar Dalenogare Neto chose not to mention it.