Maria Full of Grace Rating: Release Date: 07 December, 2004 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $10.97 You SAVE: $9.01! Cast: Orlando Tobon Catalina Sandino Moreno Guilied Lopez

Maria Full of Grace Reviews

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Real.
The situations, dialogue and emotion in this film are raw and pull you in right away. I was educated about a world with which I was unfamiliar, but I maintained my attachment to some of the characters. I experienced the frightening feeling of being lost in a world that can't understand your desperation. The movie's content is intense, but its message is important. You will follow the storyline without hesitation.

a tale of tragedy, courage and life
Catalina Sandino Moreno stars in this intimate and moving portrayal of a young girl (named Maria) growing up in an impoverished South American village. Her life begins to spin out of control when the boy childish she has been dating begins to drift from her, she quits her job de-thorning roses (a beautiful and subtle image for the woman she allegorically portrays) and realizes she is pregnant.

Hope arrives in the opportunity to smuggle drugs to America swallowing condoms containing cocaine. She accepts and we are drawn into the tale wondering what will happen to her and the three other young women working as "mules" for the drug runners.

You can tell by the title that Maria symbolically portrays Mary, the mother of Jesus: a beautiful young woman arrives pregnant and unmarried in the big city (in this case, New York) where she has no place to stay and no one to trust. Her innocent child brings her hope and in the end, frees her from her past.

By contrasting the difficult choices of a real-world teen with the overarching biblical narrative always faintly in the background, the filmmakers have created an exquisite and, in the end, redemptive tale of life on this broken planet. Highly recommended.

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