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After depicting an intense situation in Gravity, co-writer Jonás Cuarón will now do it again, stepping into the director’s chair, but this time on land. Desierto is a thriller starring Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Alondra Hidalgo, following the harrowing migrant experience for some. Once set for a release earlier this spring, STX Entertainment moved it to a more politically timely slot next month and now we have a new trailer.

We said in our review, “A tense thriller of survival set against a desolate landscape of quiet austerity until the deafening sound of our heroes’ pursuer returns after a brief respite allowing these strangers the time to emotively talk about their lives—no, it’s not Gravity. Filmmaker Jonás Cuarón certainly has a type, though, since his sophomore effort in the director’s chair, Desierto, has a lot of formal similarities to his and father Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning ride. Thematically different since the whole exists in the wasteland battlegrounds of the Mexican border, is fought by the impoverished rather than elite, and includes a villain possessed by a conscious psychopathy in his treatment of other human beings, it’s still difficult to separate the two when the same screenwriter worked on both.”

Check out the trailer below.

What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.

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Desierto opens on October 14th.

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