After seeing the provocative and powerful From Nowhere last year at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, I wrote:
Arriving in the middle of an election season when debates over U.S. immigration policy have devolved into sloganeering and shouting matches, From Nowhere feels all the more urgent and relevant as it applies human faces to abstract statistics and arguments. Writer-director Matthew Newton (Three Blind Mice) neatly avoids predictability and melodramatic excess in focusing on three undocumented teenagers nearing graduation at a Bronx high school, effectively using the specifics of their individual situations to illustrate opportunities and obstacles in the path of anyone pursuing the American Dream while hiding in plain sight. Credible and creditable performances by a fine cast of promising newcomers and familiar veterans enhance the emotional impact of this low-key but compelling indie...
I
know: It sounds a bit like one of those “Eat your spinach, it’s good for you”
movies. But trust me: From Nowhere is not just a noble gesture — it’s
also a compelling, well-crafted and impressively acted drama that arguably is
even more relevant right now than it was last March. The movie begins its
theatrical run in New York and Los Angeles February 17 before (I hope) rolling
out to theaters nationwide. Here is my original Variety review, and here is a trailer.
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