Maria Full of Grace (2004)
(María, llena eres de gracia)
Country: COL/US/ECU
Technical: col 101m
Director: Joshua Marston
Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez
Synopsis:
A Colombian flower worker, queasy over her unplanned pregnancy, chafes at the casual treatment she encounters from her boss. Abandoning what she considers to be an unworthy, dead-end existence, she agrees to act as 'mule' for drug runners to the United States.
Review:
An essential movie detailing the process by which desperate women, and it is women, naturally, earn money by swallowing horrendous quantities of narcotics for what are, for them, considerable sums of money. Unflinching and objective in its presentation, by focusing exclusively on Maria's experience it nevertheless provides all the human and socio-economic background we need to understand the problem.
(María, llena eres de gracia)
Country: COL/US/ECU
Technical: col 101m
Director: Joshua Marston
Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez
Synopsis:
A Colombian flower worker, queasy over her unplanned pregnancy, chafes at the casual treatment she encounters from her boss. Abandoning what she considers to be an unworthy, dead-end existence, she agrees to act as 'mule' for drug runners to the United States.
Review:
An essential movie detailing the process by which desperate women, and it is women, naturally, earn money by swallowing horrendous quantities of narcotics for what are, for them, considerable sums of money. Unflinching and objective in its presentation, by focusing exclusively on Maria's experience it nevertheless provides all the human and socio-economic background we need to understand the problem.
(María, llena eres de gracia)
Country: COL/US/ECU
Technical: col 101m
Director: Joshua Marston
Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez
Synopsis:
A Colombian flower worker, queasy over her unplanned pregnancy, chafes at the casual treatment she encounters from her boss. Abandoning what she considers to be an unworthy, dead-end existence, she agrees to act as 'mule' for drug runners to the United States.
Review:
An essential movie detailing the process by which desperate women, and it is women, naturally, earn money by swallowing horrendous quantities of narcotics for what are, for them, considerable sums of money. Unflinching and objective in its presentation, by focusing exclusively on Maria's experience it nevertheless provides all the human and socio-economic background we need to understand the problem.