Last Days in the Desert

The performances feel unadorned by affect or any contrivance. It's simply the emotions and the words that matter, offered up to contemplate in a meditative cinematic state.

At a time when cynical, pandering 'faith-based' movies have gained an extraordinary foothold at the box office, it should be exhilarating to see a genuinely provocative movie about the trials and tribulations of Jesus Christ. It isn't.

"Last Days in the Desert" soon expands into a meditation on such themes as fathers and sons, family responsibilities, trust, destiny and death ...

Is it scripture? No. Is it flawed, struggling, human? Yes.

Ultimately "Last Days in the Desert" never quite hits its stride as either an art piece or a biblical variation.

A quietly compelling portrait of the human side of Jesus, wrestling with his doubts while wandering through the Judean desert.

A visually powerful film that seeks to be a deeply human reading of man. [Full review in Spanish]

A film that shows simplicity when its background is very complex. [Full review in Spanish]

The movie advances towards a synthetic, resonant, terrestrial and enigmatic epilogue that raises the scope of this paradoxical secular film about faith. [Full review in Spanish]

A symbolic and almost parabolic story that walks through the most intimate of the Gospels supported by Lubezki's photography. [Full review in Spanish]

A realistic approach to a dark period of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, endowed with an unusual humanism, with the intention of inviting to contemplation. [Full review in Spanish]

The seventh film from an appreciable artisan as Garcia is as risky as personal. [Full review in Spanish]