"Maria Full of Grace" arrived yesterday from my Netflix queue. It's in Spanish with English subtitles, but I'll make the disclaimer that there was never a point in the movie where the dialogue was so fast that you were confused or couldn't keep up with the captioning. Even if you didn't have the subtitles, there wasn't so much dialogue that you wouldn't understand what was going on...well, I have a moderate comprehension of spoken Spanish so I may be overstating that.
Nothing seemed to be contrived or false. The pace of the storyline was natural--nothing was forced or put in just for effect.
The story follows Maria, a Columbian girl who agrees to act as a drug mule to make some money quickly. What happens between the moments of her swallowing a kilo of heroin and returning to the airport in New York to return to Columbia are what puts you on the edge of your seat hoping that she doesn't just do what it expected.
I liked Catalina Sandino Moreno's quiet style of acting and hope to see her in other movies in the future.
Put it in your queue.
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Posted by Tiffany at January 23, 2005 12:55 PMI really want to see that; I've read some really good reviews. I also want to see Sideways, Million Dollar Baby.
I recently saw Shaun of the Dead and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle - both very funny.
Posted by: Amanda at January 24, 2005 03:17 PMI'd heard people say that Harold and Kumar was pretty good...but I didn't believe them.
Posted by: Tiffany at January 24, 2005 05:59 PM