The Desert Within (2008)
- Original title
- Desierto adentro
- Directed by
- Rodrigo Plá
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Mexico
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man struggles with guilt and faith after a tragedy in his family. He becomes an obsessive builder of a church, hoping to find redemption for past sins. The story follows the impact of his devotion on his loved ones over many years.
melancholiccerebralvisually lushslow-burnbleakintrospectiveemotionally heavyartfulcontemplative
What happens
The Desert Within (Spanish: Desierto Adentro) is a 2008 Mexican drama film written and directed by Rodrigo Plá. The film was inspired by the diaries of the Christian existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It won seven awards at the 2008 Guadalajara International Film Festival. The film incorporates animation and art as bookends to each series of events in the film. The title of the film is drawn from Nietzsche's epigraph about acknowledging uncertainty: "The desert grows, and woe to him who conceals the desert within him..." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
How Could I Not Love You? (2008)
Violanchelo (2008)
Lake Tahoe (2008)
Teo's Voyage (2008)
Insignificant Things (2008)
Tear This Heart Out (2008)
Becloud (2009)
Malos hábitos (2007)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.