El Norte (2-DVD, Criterion Collection) R
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- 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 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)
Rating: 3/5 --
Narrated in a direct and unsophisticated style, it has greatness but also the limitations of independent cinema that tends to look at the immediate with excessive schematism. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Fotogramas
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
From the very first moments of EL NORTE, we know that we are in the hands of a great movie. It tells a simple story in such a romantic and poetic way that we are touched, deeply and honestly...
Chicago Sun-Times
A small, personal, independently made film with the sweep of EL NORTE, with solid, sympathetic performances by unknown actors and a visual style of astonishing vibrancy, must be regarded as a remarkable accomplishment...
New York Times
The result is a disturbing movie about hope and disappointment.
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People Magazine
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: 42,013
- UPC: 715515034722
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