El Norte (Criterion Collection) - DVD
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- Genre: Foreign
- Description: 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 Incha Grapes of Wrath for our timeInch.
- Title: El Norte (Criterion Collection)
- Format: DVD
- MPAA Rating: R (Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences.)
- Studio: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 01/20/2009
- Genre: Foreign
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- Product Name: El Norte (Criterion Collection) - DVD
- UPC: 715515034722
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