Sin Nombre Adds Its Voice To The Latino Immigrant Celluloid Collection
10 March 2009, 6:00 PM. By Cindy Casares
Sin Nombre, the latest Latin American immigrant film to wow critics, produced by Alex’s boyfriends Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, premieres March 20 in select theaters.
The train hopping narrative was written and directed by American Cary Fukunaga who went to Southern Mexico to bum trains himself in 2005, before writing the script. Artists. It paid off, of course. Fukunaga captured himself a Best Direction award at Sundance as well as an award for Best Cinematography despite this being his first feature length piece. And if the trailer is any indication, it’s a film worth checking into.
The story is about a Honduran teenager named Sayra, played by Mexican Paulina Gaitan, who is on her way to the U.S. with her father and uncle when she meets Casper, played by native Honduran Edgar Flores, a young man mixed up with, but trying to escape, the famed Mara Salvatrucha gang of Chiapas. The two must rely on each other to get to their destination. Called a mix between a love story and a chase film, Sin Nombre promises to be an important addition to the Latino immigrant story on film.
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look interesting…
Movie good… Fire bad!!!
Saw it, not impressed.
See Infinite Border instead - despite Fukunaga’s claims about documentaries exploiting people, Sin Nombre really only further exoticizes the border and Latin America as a dangerous place full of gangs and violence. I might have liked it as an entertaining movie if it weren’t for the director’s obnoxious Q&A session beforehand - seriously, riding a train for awhile and talking to imprisoned gang members doesn’t prevent you from being a hipster douchebag.
Now if only Gael and Diego were sexy, violent gang members in the movie……
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124089/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwHvLej9u94
As a rule, I don’t watch Latino- or Latin American-themed films created by non-Latinos. They’re crap most of the time. I’ve heard of this film and was hoping Fukunaga was Peruvian/Japanese (I haven’t heard anything about his national or ethnic background before, only you guys have referred to him as American, what does that mean?) I don’t need to watch another story featuring romanticized Illegal immigration, victimized brown women, and heavily-tattooed pandilleros. Sorry!
Is El Norte the Citizen Kane of immigrant films?