The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
While the experience may have been highly rewarding for its participants, viewers may be less than enthralled.
Canada, France, Switzerland · 2005
Director François Kohler
Starring
Genre Documentary
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Accompanied by a psychiatrist, thirteen men from around the world set off on a journey of bonding and self-discovery through the Tunisian desert in this immersive documentary.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
While the experience may have been highly rewarding for its participants, viewers may be less than enthralled.
Nicely rendered moments of casual intimacy between the men attest to the trip's therapeutic value, but very little of it transfers to the audience. The dull large-group scenes consist mostly of old standbys like writing problems on slips of paper and burning them.
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
Though it generates its share of unintentional giggles, Desert Wind does manage to take us to a seldom-visited place: the hidden corners of the straight male mind.
The problem with Desert Wind is that Kohler takes everything at face value. Wouldn't it have been more useful to make this trip the centerpiece of a longer documentary that follows the men before Tunisia and, more importantly, after?
Far from encouraging "Survivor"-style competitiveness, the desert setting serves as a serene Club Med-type backdrop to the all-male bonding.
Desert Wind will be of interest to men - and especially to women, who might learn much they didn't know about the opposite sex.