Went to see Maria Full of Grace last Saturday. It's a good movie, not all doom and nastyness, but just real people doing real things.
As someone who has lived in Colombia (and my gf who is from Colombia agrees), I can say Colombia is exactly as portrayed in the movie. My gf said the moto guy was exactly like the real moto guys she knew in Colombia.
I've shot a documentary in Colombia earlier this year, and in the beginning of the movie, I kept thinking "we have that footage!". All the scenes where shot in places we have shot or at least been to as well (Queens, NYC; the airport; Medellin Colombia, Bogota). Of course, we don't have that story, nor that acting, nor that moviemaking talent.
# Jul 21, 2004