17.6.07

Maria full of Grace




A movie by Joshua Marston Maria Full of Grace with Catalina Sabdino Moreno is touching disturbing beautiful and tragic. Fascinating actors' work. A story feels absolutely real.
The part shot in Colombia shows the grey everyday life of provincial Colombians with their toils and hardships, romances that soon end with a pregnancy and family disputes. Life full of preoccupation over financial problems and worries of how to raise kids. To the eye of an average American this life might seem filthy and scary. It seems to be a life without a meaning because there are no place for expensive cars or designer clothes. People work, date, marry, give birth to kids, celebrate birthdays, and national holidays, get drunk, have fights.