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Maria Full Of Grace
Every year, we get a handful of dramas that really stand out from the rest of the pack. Joshua Marston’s Maria Full Of Grace is one of those films. Beautifully acted and written with such dramatic intensity, it is an engrossing film that examines the lengths some will go through to escape the life of poverty, desperation and a dead-end job, in this case, to act as drug mules from Colombia to New York.
Newcomer Catalina Sandino Moreno gives a spot-on performance from maintaining her composure in front of immigration and custom officials while being interrogated to the story’s more somber moments. The details of the drug muling were handled in such a way to be educational but with terrifying realism.
This is the type of film that gets a director instant international acclaim in the same manner City of God did to Fernando Meirelles, Before Night Falls to Julian Schnabel and Amores Perros to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
~Edwin
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