Padre Nuestro (2007)

Director:

Christopher Zalla

Writer:

Christopher Zalla (writer)

Release Date:

5 October 2007 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune. |

Plot Keywords:

Mexican | Immigrant | Smuggle

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

US Showtimes:

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Cast

Jesús Ochoa	...	Diego
Armando Hernández	...	Juan
Jorge Adrián Espíndola	...	Pedro
Paola Mendoza	...	Magda
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sean Andrew	...	Police Officer #2
Leonardo Anzures	...	Simon
Luis Antonio Aponte	...	Foreman
Jean Brassard	...	Restaurant Owner
Barbara Danicka	...	Polish Woman
Eugenio Derbez	...	Anibal
Ricky Garcia	...	Restaurant Worker
Scott Glascock	...	John
Lev Gorn	...	Rough-Shave
Israel Hernández	...	Ricardo
Yarida Hernandez	...	Woman
Matthew Kehoe	...	Art handler
Jessica Kelly	...	Pig-Tails
Lenny Ligotti	...	Police Officer #1
Edward McGinty	...	US Border Patrol Officer
Randall Newsome	...	Truck Driver
Don Puglisi	...	Jimmy
Greta Quispe	...	Coat Check Girl
Rajiv Rao	...	Store Clerk
Jaime Santiago Sánchez	...	Skinny Man / Old Worker
Santos	...	Cowboy Hat Mexican
Yury Tsykun	...	Russian Man
Juan Villarreal	...	Shopkeeper
Teresa Yenque	...	Senora

Also Known As:

Sangre de mi sangre (USA) (new title) (USA: Spanish title)

Runtime:

USA:110 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Cinergy Pictures

suspenseful tale with told with deep character development

My wife and I saw Padre Nuestro, now called Sangre De Mi Sangre at a special showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and were treated to a question and answer session by the Director/writer, Christopher Zalla. The name of the movie was changed from Padre Nuestro to its new title in Mexico where it had a fairly wide distribution to avoid confusion with an earlier light weight comedy made in Chile with the same title. This movie is anything but light weight as it revolves around the gritty life experiences of illegal aliens struggling to survive in the United States in a dog eat dog world.

This movie contains wonderful performances from each of its four principal characters and Jesus Ochoa (Diego), who is the most well recognized of the Mexican cast, fills the screen with a performance as large as his girth. Armando Hernandez (Juan) deserves mention for an equally powerful performance with only a slightly lesser efforts from Jorge Adrian Espindola (Pedro) and Paola Mendoza (Magda, which certainly did not detract from the excellence of this film.

Filmed on location in a gritty industrial section of Brooklyn, the story contains a sense of believability with only a modest level of contrivance necessary to develop a credible, seamless story line. A powerful movie, which measured up to its success at the Sundance film festival in 1987. The movie will have a limited release in the United States at a single theatre in five city's during the month of May, 2008, so it may not be widely seen, which would be a shame. I look forward to seeing Christopher's next film which we are told will be set in a Bolivian prison for Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment and which may star Don Cheadle.