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A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
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- 7 wins & 27 nominations
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- TriviaWhen the writers began to outline the story, the main character was British. Later they decided to move away a little from the context of the English in 19th century Argentina; it occurred to them that the character could be Danish and started to think of Viggo Mortensen as a possible choice for the lead role. They continued rewriting the film with him in mind until Mortensen himself also began to get involved and to provide lots of ideas, thus leading to his casting.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Celebrated: Viggo Mortensen (2015)
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Performed by Buckethead & Viggo Mortensen
Composed by Viggo Mortensen
From the album Please Tomorrow
Published by Perceval Press
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Symbolic Western
Gorgeous cinematography with bright green and blue tones in an unconventional aspect ratio, set in Argentine Patagonia, and having almost no music score (emphasizing natural noises, instead). All those traits make this Danish-Argentine-French-Mexican-German production to be unusual among Westerns. As a matter of fact, its script is even more deviant. While general plot - a mounted armed man searching his daughter in the wild - may be compared to John Ford's The Searchers, the pictoric or symbolic element puts it closer to films such as Jodorovsky's El Topo or Jarmusch's Dead Man, although having no comic relief and being more violent. The script makes no sense in linear narrative terms, and it is open to multiple interpretations as you may notice if you read a wide number of reviews. A Danish family in an Argentine military action in Patagonia directed to killing native people; a supposedly deserter with rumored bizarre habits; an officer who speaks French and thinks about the ball planned by his superiors; a harsh officer who hates Indians, has strong sexual appetite and wants the Danish girl; that teenager evades with a young soldier with no pevious sign that she intended something like that. Nothing fit very well and dialogues lead nowhere. It becomes more obvious when even more surrealistic situations eventualy happen. Indeed, nothing may be taken literally, but there is also no recipe for connnecting the pieces either. What does Viggo Mortensen's character deeply searches? What the desert in the end of the world means for him? What does his daughter represents? What her two latter appearances mean? What those officers and the native Americans symbolize? Many open questions to think about.
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- Also known as
- Land of Plenty
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- Budget
- ARS 3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $60,231
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,314
- Mar 22, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $1,253,774
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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