El Norte

Name: El Norte
Genre: Drama

United Kingdom, United States · 1983
Rated R · 2h 21m
Director Gregory Nava
Starring Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Lupe Ontiveros
Genre Drama

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. One of the first films to examine what it feels like to be an undocumented immigrant through their eyes.

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Chicago Reader by

Nava has made a film that is essentially indistinguishable from "Love Story."

TV Guide Magazine by Frank Lovece

An effective and moving drama about the strength of the human spirit and the will to survive.

100

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

This is the first film to approach the subject of "undocumented workers" solely through their eyes. This is not one of those docudramas where we half-expect a test at the end, but a film like "The Grapes of Wrath" that gets inside the hearts of its characters and lives with them.