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El Norte(Criterion Collection)(2 disc)

 

 

Written and Directed by Gregory Nava

US-Guatemala-Mexico 1983 / Drama  / Urban / Adventure / 140 min / Color / Dolby  5.1 / 1.78:1 Widescreen Anamorphic / NTSC / In English, Spanish and Kiche with  Optional English Subtitles



Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, David Villalpando , Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago, Eraclio Zepeda .

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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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Gregory Nava
New audio commentary featuring Nava
In the Service of the Shadows: The Making of “El Norte”: a new video program featuring interviews with Nava, producer and co-writer Anna Thomas, actors Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, and set designer David Wasco
The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva, Nava’s 1972 award-winning student film
Gallery of Chiapas location-scouting photographs
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation