Frederick Cipoletti's crime yarn 'Desolate' is set amid farmlands suffering apocalyptic drought. By John DeFore Frederick Cipoletti’s Desolate begins in familiar post-apocalyptic fashion, with shots ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- After seeing the effects of a real drought in California, Freddie Cipoletti decided to take the struggles of farmers from real life to screen in his first feature film, Desolate ...

Desolate claims to be an old-style western jazzed up with new-style ideas, but it’s nothing new and the pulverizing violence has been done before, in gangster pictures with cowboy hats. Slogging along ...

Desolate (2019) is a drama film directed by Frederick Cipoletti. It follows the youngest son of a family struggling to survive during a drought. After being abandoned by his brothers, the young boy ...