You can now see Mimosas, the subject of a great making-of documentary
by
Ben Sachs
on
June 7, 2017 at 3:10PM
Grasshopper Film, the U.S. distributor of Mimosas, describes the movie as a western on their website, and while I doubt that Laxe had westerns on the brain when he was making the film, it does evoke numerous classics in that genre. The theme of religious devotion in the desert sometimes recalls John Ford's Wagon Master, while Laxe's inspired use of locations to convey isolation and psychological fortitude recalls such Anthony Mann westerns as The Naked Spur and The Far Country.