Sin Nombre

Made with haunting verisimilitude, Cary Joji Fukunaga's film tells the story of teens who flee poverty and violence in Mexico, able to hope for a future that is only slightly less tenuous

There is much strange beauty in the poverty and desperation captured by "Sin Nombre," an evocative and impressive first feature from writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga tracing both the journey north taken by so many from Mexico and Central America and the gang violence that stunts the lives of the many others who stay behind.
The film begins with Casper (Edgar Flores), one of the countless teenagers absorbed into the brutal Mara Salvatrucha gang, looking out from his open doorway into an ethereal scene: Fallen leaves blanket the dirt path to his shack of a home, sunlight has turned them golden, trees form a canopy of calm above. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3557 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 20 marzo 2009