Maria Full Of Grace
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Mon 13 June 2005 // 20:00
Tue 14 June 2005 // 20:00
Wed 15 June 2005 // 20:00
(Joshua Marston / 2005 / USA-Columbia / 101mins / Cert 15)
(13-16th June / 8pm / £4/3/2ttt)
Wasting away in a Columbian flower sweatshop, 17 year-old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is tired of her work, her family, and the unresponsiveness of her boyfriend. When she learns that she's pregnant, Maria discovers a quick, but dangerous, way to make big bucks: to volunteer herself as a drug mule. Asked to ingest small heroin pellets and fly to New York for retrieval, Maria agrees, but soon realizes just how hazardous the mission can be.
Marston's debut film is one of the year's best so far, engaging in the complex moral debates surrounding the drug-trafficking industry with a detatchment that steers away from sermonising and glib sentiment. His intelligent formal approach to the filming means that the punchy, economic narrative exists within a loose, documentary style, allowing for superb naturalistic performances, notably from Oscar nominated first timer Catalina Sandino Moreno.
(13-16th June / 8pm / £4/3/2ttt)
Wasting away in a Columbian flower sweatshop, 17 year-old Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is tired of her work, her family, and the unresponsiveness of her boyfriend. When she learns that she's pregnant, Maria discovers a quick, but dangerous, way to make big bucks: to volunteer herself as a drug mule. Asked to ingest small heroin pellets and fly to New York for retrieval, Maria agrees, but soon realizes just how hazardous the mission can be.
Marston's debut film is one of the year's best so far, engaging in the complex moral debates surrounding the drug-trafficking industry with a detatchment that steers away from sermonising and glib sentiment. His intelligent formal approach to the filming means that the punchy, economic narrative exists within a loose, documentary style, allowing for superb naturalistic performances, notably from Oscar nominated first timer Catalina Sandino Moreno.