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‘Deserto Particular’ Review: A Tender Diptych of Masculinity Deconstructed

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Manuel Betancourt At the halfway mark, Aly Muritiba’s “Deserto Particular” clicks into high gear. There’s a change of scenery, yes; we move from the chilly South of Brazil to its arid Northeast.

And there’s a change in point of view; we leave our protagonist behind and follow, instead, the person he was so intent on tracking down.

More importantly, though, the film comes alive in its second half, which deepens and complicates the story we thought we were watching, about a disgraced cop trying to run away from the violence that’s set to cost him his job and his reputation.

For some, the tender empathy that runs through the film’s latter half may not be enough to offset its choice of sympathetic leading man.

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