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El Norte

El Norte

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Summary

After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte."

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Review

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Hailed as the "first American independent epic", Gregory Nava's compassionate film eschews political sermonising to concentrate on the human aspect of the arduous trek undertaken by so many Latinos to that pitiless promised land to the north. Adeptly using a docudramatic style to ward off overt sentimentality, Nava draws wondrously naturalistic performances from David Villalpando and Zaide Silvia Gutierrez. They play a brother and sister who, following the murder of their peasant father, experience both the despair of the refugee and the optimism of the immigrant after quitting their remote Guatemalan village. A sobering glimpse of reality, that's also an irresistibly involving drama.

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7.7/10

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Cast

rolenameArturo XuncaxErnesto Gómez CruzEnrique XuncaxDavid VillalpandoRosa XuncaxZaide Silvia GutierrezLupe XuncaxAlicia del Lago

Crew

rolenameDirectorGregory Nava

Details

Theatrical distributor

Mainline Pictures Ltd

Released on

1983-10-11

Languages

English | Spanish

Available on

video

Formats

Colour

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