Catalina Sandino Moreno is fascinating to watch as a young Columbian girl who trades her dignity for exposure to the criminal world out of desperation to get money for her family by becoming a drug mule and smuggling the goods into the United States using her stomach filled with pellets that are loaded with drugs. She meets others in the trade on her way to America and this film is extremely plain and simple but it packs a peculiar power in its realistic look and director Joshua Marston has crafted a drug film influenced by Steven Soderbergh's brilliant 2000 film 'Traffic' as Marston uses the hand held effect of camera use to demonstrate the unsteadiness of a world that destroys those that try and prosper from it.
Review of Maria Full of Grace
