El Norte (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 20, 2009
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ernesto Cruz | |
Performer: | David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Alicia Del Lago, Lupe Ontiveros & Trinidad Silva | |
Directed by | Gregory Nava | |
Screenwriting by | Gregory Nava & Anna Thomas | |
Produced by | Anna Thomas |
Entertainment Reviews:
The result is a disturbing movie about hope and disappointment.
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People Magazine
It is beautifully lensed and comes across as a kind of giant Renaissance canvas.
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Variety
Rating: 4/4 --
From the very first moments of El Norte, we know that we are in the hands of a great movie.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 2/4 --
In El Norte's defense, it does not, unlike those contemporary films, filter its view of an ethnic subculture through the eyes of a white protagonist.
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Slant Magazine
Though his subject is a serious one and his intentions are apparently noble, Nava has made a film that is essentially indistinguishable from Love Story.
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Chicago Reader
The most striking thing about Gregory Nava's El Norte may be that so compelling and true a story took so long to make it to the screen.
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Sojourner
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Splendid on nearly every level.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
Two young Indians, a brother and sister, travel from their remote Guatemalan village to the "promised land" of the north--Los Angeles. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Screenplay.
Description by Image Entertainment/Criterion Collection:
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It's a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called "a Grapes of Wrath for our time."
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- Sales Rank: 81,988
- UPC: 715515035125
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