Sin Nombre - Movie Review and Synopsis

Monday, March 16, 2009

Category: Movies. Tags: Cary Fukunaga, Focus Features, Paulina Gaitan, Thriller.

Sin Nombre Sayra (Gaitan), a Honduran teenager, and Willy (Flores), a recent recruit in the Mara Salvatrucha gang, both dream of better lives for themselves, and a fateful event will find the two strangers united on a freight train bound for the U.S., where the hope for new lives await.

Cary Fukunaga’s feature debut won two Sundance awards, and now the director has an equal number of deals in place at Focus Features/Universal Pictures. Next up, however, looks to be his adaptation of the African-child soldier novel Beasts of No Nation. I admire Fukunaga’s multinational aspirations; he is perhaps the new Fernando Meirelles.

Rated R for violence, language and some sexual content.

Director: Cary Fukunaga
Stars: Paulina Gaitan
Studio: Focus Features
Genre: Thriller