A realistic Sci-Fi epic, an international thriller, a romantic comedy, and a devastating documentary premiere this Friday…all with Latinos at the center of the action.
Four very different films are opening Friday, October 4th, with Latinos in front and behind the camera in a wide–and sometimes weird–range.
Alfonso Cuarón’s long-awaited Gravity, a harrowing tale of two astronauts stranded in space when their orbiting station is destroyed, finally opens wide. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in a script written by Cuarón and his son Jonás. (Visit The SeFija! YouTube Channel this weekend for a special interview with both of them, and clips from the movie.)
Jessica Alba is sweet and beautiful as one of the romantic leads in Adult Children of Divorce (A.C.O.D.), a charming new rom-com also opening nationwide on Friday, October 4. We talked about the role and gave you the trailer a while back. Check it out here.
Ben Affleck may be the star of the new thriller, Runner Runner, playing the bad guy in this film about a Princeton college student (Justin Timberlake) whose online gambling gets him in big trouble, causing him to flee to Costa Rica. Along the way, he’ll encounter Yul Vázquez, Vincent Laresca, and James Molina, as well as the beautiful vistas of Puerto Rico, where the movie was actually made.
And finally, there’s Narco Cultura. We don’t often cover documentaries, but sometimes there’s a standout we can’t really ignore, and this beautifully made and admittedly bizarre doc about narco-traffickers and pop culture is one of them. For a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos, the filmmakers say, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws, glorified by musicians who praise their fame and success. War photographer Shaul Schwarz built this explosive look at the drug cartels’ pop culture influence on both sides of the border, as experienced by an LA narcocorrido singer dreaming of stardom and a Juarez crime scene investigator on the front line of Mexico’s Drug War. If this whole movie is half as wild as this trailer, it’s well worth watching–no matter how painful:
