SummarySeeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra, joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with a teenage Mexican gang member, El Casper, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgi... Read More
Directed By:Cary Joji Fukunaga
Written By:Cary Joji Fukunaga
Sin Nombre
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Generally Favorable
77
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Generally Favorable
7.8
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
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100
Thrilling and beautifully crafted.
100
Mr. Fukanaga's purpose is to evoke the immigrants' experience, which he does with such eloquence and power as to inspire awe.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.8
91% Positive
40 Ratings
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5% Mixed
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Jan 8, 2020
8
Well filmed, very authentic feeling road picture. A class of people who live for today simply because there is nothing else, adds a vibrance that is rarely captured on film. Apparently the director spent a couple years living with Mexican gangs to flesh out the tone. Not nearly as effective as the follow up Beasts of no Nation a few years later, but a strong entry.
Aug 20, 2014
8
A harrowing tale of hope and despair, Sin Nombre has many positives. First off, the acting is great. I was unfamiliar with all of the actors, but they each did a great job. The direction from Cary ****, director of the acclaimed HBO miniseries True Detective, is stupendous. This feature combined with True Detective cement **** as a young director to watch. The cinematography is great and the story is very well developed and well told. The character development here is also very interesting. The growth of many of the characters in the film is as beautiful to watch as it is depressing. Ultimately, this is a immigration tale set against the violent gangs that dominate much of Honduras and some of the other Central American nations. This contrast of hope vs despair is a riveting thing to watch. Ultimately, Sin Nombre is a great and moving film that will have you wrapped into its world from the very beginning.
88
More substantive than the average thriller/road movie.
80
Fukunaga refrains from artificially amping up excitement for its own sake, maintaining an intimate, observational style that offers up a host of things to look at and think about.
70
What keeps the movie from tipping into full-blown exploitation like "City of God," which turns third-world misery into art-house thrills, is Mr. Fukunaga's sincerity. What keeps you watching is his superb eye.
63
It's the tone of the movie's two sides - action and stillness, graphic violence and romantic melodrama - that don't cohere.
40
Lushly photographed and meticulously sound-designed, Sin Nombre is visceral without being vital, researched without ever seeming lived-in.
Sep 13, 2024
7
Un film édifiant sur l’émigration de ces pauvres gens de leurs pays sous-développés d’Amérique centrale vers le monde civilisé, à savoir les Etats-Unis d’Amérique. Un voyage compliqué et risqué pour quitter soit leur condition simplement misérable soit ces horribles gangs de sauvages tatoués, ces espèces de tribus dégénérées de camés où seule la loi du plus fort compte ! Bien réalisé et d’une vision pour le moins sans ambages, Sin Nombre dresse donc un sinistre état des lieux sans verser pour autant dans un pathos excessif. Le film en fait touefois un peu trop à propos de ces péripéties pour le mois exagérées, voire carrément invraisemblables. Bien sûr, se dessinent en filigrane une dénonciation très orientée et un idéal clairement gauchiste et pro-migratoire mais le message est si habilement distillé qu’on lui pardonne volontiers, tandis que par ailleurs, l’on se hâte de construire un mur, un mur gigantesque ! (afin d’endiguer les prochaines invasions et de faire chier les gauchos bien sûr).
Nov 11, 2011
0
If you like watching human suffering and tragedy by all means watch this movie(or the news). If you watch movies for having a good time the don´t. I watched this movie based on user reviews.... MISTAKE. Huge waste of time.
Production Company:
- Scion Films
- Canana Films
- Creando Films
- Primary Productions
Release Date:Mar 20, 2009
Duration:1 h 36 m
Rating:R
Tagline:The greatest sin of all is risking nothing.
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Awards
Stockholm Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 3 Nominations
