The new story of ‘Sin’
“Sin Nombre” is a gripping hybrid: part romantic melodrama, part gangland tragedy, part immigrant thriller. It is also a remarkable accomplishment for first-time director Cary Fukunaga, who journeyed to Mexico and Honduras to make a film that confounds our expectations and opens our eyes.
Initially, the plot follows two separate strands. In the first, set in the Mexican state of Chiapas, Willy (Edgar Flores) has to square the demands of his brutal and pitiless gang with a budding disgust with his life. In the second, teenager Sayra (Paulina Gaitan) sets out with her father and...
