- Drama, Thriller
- 77 min
Rotten Tomatoes100%IMDb7.0
To enter the "Land of Opportunities" you must tell the truths...
Diego, a Venezuelan urbanist, and Elena, a contemporary dancer from Barcelona, move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. Their intention is to boost their professional careers and start a family in 'the land of opportunities'.
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Contemporary, grave, intimate and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Brent Marchanton TMDB · Jan 20248/10
Welcome to America, land of the free and home of the brave, a sanctuary for the world’s poor, tired and huddled masses. Or is it? That’s the question raised in this gripping, edgy debut feature from the writing-directing duo of Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vasquez. When a Spanish couple (Alberto Ammann, Bruna Cusí) relocating to the US on legally obtained visas to begin a new life, they’re detained by authorities on arrival at the New York port of entry for intense questioning about matters of an undisclosed nature. With no explanation for the interrogation, they’re subjected to an increasingly intrusive line of questioning by two antagonistic agents (Ben Temple, Laura Gómez) who offer no rationale for their hostile scrutiny. It’s an exercise on par with an increasingly brutal fraternity hazing ritual, one aimed at ultimately trying to uncover some kind of allegedly illegal scheme driven by trumped-up speculation and the couple’s growing resistance to cooperate, especially when they seem to be guilty at best of failing to dot a few i’s and cross a few t’s. They become reluctant to answer highly personal questions, leading to circumstances that eventually threaten to tear apar
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Cast
- Alberto AmmannDiego
- Bruna CusíElena
- Ben TempleAgent Barrett
- Laura GómezAgent Vásquez
- Colin MorganPolicia finestreta
- Gerard OmsPassatger
- Nuris BluPolicia cua
- David ComriePolicia sala
Crew
- Alejandro RojasDirector
- Juan Sebastián VásquezDirector
- Juan Sebastián VásquezWriter
- Alejandro RojasWriter
- Juan Sebastián VásquezDirector of Photography
- Emanuele TizianiEditor
- Xosé ZapataProducer
- Carles TorrasProducer
- Alba SotorraProducer
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