Sin Nombre

Desperate Lives Crisscross in Train-Hopping Journey

The caressing, honeyed light in “Sin Nombre” beautifies and softens every ugly moment in this equivocating (inspirational yet hard-boiled) story about geographic and moral border crossings. Written and directed by the young American Cary Joji Fukunaga making his feature debut, the film comes with a veritable certificate of authenticity: it was shot in Mexico and is performed in Spanish by Latin American actors. The credits are also in Spanish, including the information that the project was “developed with the assistance of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program,” an acknowledgment of its truer, more complex provenance. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4567 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 marzo 2009