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Maria Full Of Grace

María, llena eres de gracia (Maria Full Of Grace)

2004

Joshua Marston

Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied López, Virgina Ariza ...

7.0

15,567

Drama Seventeen-year-old Maria lives in a small town north of Bogotá with her mother, her grandmother, her sister and her sister’s young son. Maria works on a large rose plantation where she and her friend, Blanca, remove the thorns from the stalks and tie up the roses ready for export. The work is tiring and strict rules apply; the only variety in Maria’s life are the fiestas on the market square she attends with her boyfriend, Juan, on the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		David Rooney Variety	"Not since Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic” has the mechanics of the drug trade been so fascinatingly illustrated"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Both artistically and spiritually itself full of grace"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Marston builds incredible tension. But it's the human drama etched on Moreno's young, weary face that gives Maria its potent punch. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Ruthe Stein SFGATE	"A revelatory independent film whose moments of incredible sadness are offset by the same state of grace that blesses its astonishing title character."
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Maria Full of Grace' is an extraordinary experience for many reasons, including, oddly, its willingness to be ordinary (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'Maria Full of Grace' sustains a documentary authenticity (...) Even when you're on the edge of your seat, it never sacrifices a calm, clear-sighted humanity for the sake of melodrama or cheap moralizing."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A film which raises larger questions about the nature of drug trafficking which it is unable or unwilling to answer (...) Moreno's performance deserved a film with larger perspectives"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"Frighteningly authentic (...) a tense and riveting experience (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

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