Peasants, tired of beingnothing more than manual laborers, are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village, a brother and sister, decide they must flee el Norte. After receiving help from friends and advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling, they make their way to Los Angeles.... (Full plot summary below)
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Peasants, tired of beingnothing more than manual laborers, are discovered by the Guatemalan army. After the army destroys their village, a brother and sister, decide they must flee el Norte. After receiving help from friends and advice from a veteran immigrant on strategies for traveling, they make their way to Los Angeles.
Leave your thoughts about El Norte.
| New York TimesVincent CanbyEl Norte is not exactly a great film, but it's a very good one that, through the devices of fiction, manages to provoke a number of healthily contradictory feelings about the world we all inhabit at the moment. |
| VarietyVariety StaffIt is beautifully lensed and comes across as a kind of giant Renaissance canvas. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseOn the surface El Norte is the essence of simplicity. But in 1983, the simple story was both news to many and history to many others finally seeing their story depicted on screen on their terms. [Blu-ray] |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatCharts the harsh odyssey of two Guatemalan Indians as they struggle to make a new life for themselves in America as illegal immigrants |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonA sobering glimpse of reality, that's also an irresistibly involving drama. |
| Filmcritic.comJay Antanithe definitive portrait of the experience of undocumented Latin-American workers in the United States |
| Slant MagazineMatt NollerEl Norte deserves credit for being one of the first films to engage American cinema in a discourse on the immigrant experience, but its approach to the material—shallow, condescending, and hectoring—undermines its stabs at brutal realism. |
| People MagazinePeople StaffThe result is a disturbing movie about hope and disappointment. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongGood intentions arent enough to compensate for bad editing, acting and writing. |
| User ReviewErin CI truly love this film...the innosence of Enrique and Rosa..the flute music..very thought-provoking film..truly wonderful |
