Maria Full Of Grace DVD

Maria Full Of Grace DVD

Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Joshua Marston - Original Language: Spanish - Classification: 12 years and over more

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Maria Full of Grace
Review of Maria Full Of Grace DVD by ali3986

Advantages: well acted and interesting topic matter
Disadvantages: ending is very open

First Impressions This is a film that I wanted to watch for ages but it took me a really long time to get round to it. When I did it was well worth it and I would thoroughly recommend this film to anyone who is not daunted by subtitles or big issues. Summary María Álvarez (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is a poor girl living in Columbia she has a job taking the thorns off roses in a local factory. Her mother and sister take her for granted and expect ...
...buy medicine for her sister's baby. When she becomes pregnant she panics realising that she does not love, or want to marry her boyfriend. To try and escape her lot she takes on a risky and dangerous job smuggling drugs into America. And this is where the summary stops because I don't want to spoil it, but let me tell you that this is when it starts to get really interesting. This movie is based on 100s of true stories which the director Joshua Marston ... Read review

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A strangely uplifting experience
Review of Maria Full Of Grace DVD by sparklya

Advantages: Realistic, not overly sentimental
Disadvantages: Gruesome and sad at times

...film to watch. The perils Maria has to face are all too realistic, and the potential pitfalls e.g. internal poisoning, incarceration, and mafioso, are all depicted in an accurate manner with emphasis on suspense. The acting, particularly from the lead, Catalina Sandina Moreno, is absolutely flawless, and Maria's courage, naivety and, ultimately, strong sense of morality make for a deeply affecting portrayal. ... Read review

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Maria Full Of Grace DVD

Main specs

Actor(s): Catalina Sandino Moreno, Virginia Ariza, Johanna Andrea Mora, Wilson Guerrero

Director(s): Joshua Marston

Genre: Drama

Classification: 12 years and over

Production Year: 2004

Running Time: 1 hour 41 minutes

Video Category: World Cinema Feature Film

Country Of Origin: Colombia

Plot: Desperate to escape from her banal life in rural Colombia, seventeen year old Maria Alvarez accepts a job of transporting heroin into the United States. Things soon spiral out of control, however, as she finds herself caught up with both drug lords and immigration officials...

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): Icon Home Entertainment; Warner Home Video

Release date: 22/08/2005

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: D 088370

Barcode: 7321900883702

Producer: Paul S. Mezey

Languages

Main Language: Spanish

Subtitle Language: English

Technical information

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Wide Screen

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1

Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish

DVD Description

This debut feature film by Joshua Marston tells the suspenseful and absorbing story of Maria, a poor, pregnant Columbian teenager (Catalina Sandina Moreno) with a soul-crushing job at a flower plantation and a rebellious streak. Her multigenerational, all-female family relies too much on her as the principle breadwinner, squandering her earnings on medicines of questionable value for her sister's baby. This drives Maria to quit, dump her immature boyfriend, and go to Bogota where she tumbles into work as a drug mule. Like thousands of real-life Columbians, she earns money by flying to New York City with up to a kilogram of tightly wrapped heroin pellets in her stomach, risking prison or worse: instant death should even one of the pellets break open inside her. Marston based the film on actual interviews with airport customs agents and former mules; the result is an authentic, intensely cinematic experience. The camera wrings vivid colour and mood from the many on-location settings and doesn't shy away from any aspect of Maria's journey, making this succeed as a suspense film, character study, and detailed examination of a rarely seen aspect of the drug wars. Thanks to the superb performance and charisma of lead actress Moreno--in her film debut--the audience stays riveted to her plight every step of the way. MARIA FULL OF GRACE made its debut at Sundance where it won the Audience Drama Award.

Professional reviews

Review: Astonishing. (Arena, )

A triumphant performance by Cataline Sandino Moreno (Entertainment Weekly, )

Stunning...a powerhouse film (Rolling Stone, )

Mesmerising. (The Mirror, )

Riveting. (Total Film, )

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