This Mill Valley Film Festival highlight stars Gael García Bernal as Eligio, a charismatic (and philandering) Mexican actor who wakes up one morning to find that his wife Susana (Verónica Echegui) has left him without word or warning. Eventually he discovers that she is at a writers’ workshop in Iowa and boards a plane from Mexico City to pursue her. A fish out of water in a Midwestern winter, Eligio is shocked to find Susana in another relationship and is determined to win her back, even though the new surroundings provide him with an unneeded romantic distraction. Based on the book Ciudades Desiertas by José Agustin. In English and in Spanish with English subtitles. Also starring Ashley (Hinshaw) Grace. Writer/Director: Roberto Sneider. (Mexico 2016) 102 min.