El Norte 07/17 Blu-ray (Rental)

Product Description Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It’s a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava’s groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called “a Grapes of Wrath for our time.” DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Gregory Nava, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New audio commentary featuring Nava In the Service of the Shadows: The Making of "El Norte": a new video program featuring interviews with Nava, producer and co-writer Anna Thomas, actors Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, and set designer David Wasco The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva, Nava's 1972 award-winning student film Gallery of Chiapas location-scouting photographs Theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by novelist Héctor Tobar and Roger Ebert's 1983 review of the film Review A great film...stunning visual and musical power. --Roger Ebert