Photo: Christopher Zalla's Padre Nuestro
Winner of the 2006 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Padre Nuestro unfortunately lives down to the dubious nature—with a few notable exceptions—of that so-called honor. It's as much a con job as the one pulled by Mexican refugee Juan (Armando Hernández), whom we first see running frantically from a few recently ripped off and pissed off marks. Fate and happenstance (or, more correctly, screenwriter contrivance) land him in the back of a truck carrying a fresh load of illegal émigrés bound for New York City. On the ride, Juan makes the acquaintance of sad-eyed Pedro (Jorge Adrián Espíndola), whose identity and mission (to seek out his long lost father Diego) he appropriates for himself. Diego, wonderfully portrayed by Jesús Ochoa, supposedly owns a restaurant, so Juan senses a quick and easy score. Keith Uhlich
Winner of the 2006 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Padre Nuestro unfortunately lives down to the dubious nature—with a few notable exceptions—of that so-called honor. It's as much a con job as the one pulled by Mexican refugee Juan (Armando Hernández), whom we first see running frantically from a few recently ripped off and pissed off marks. Fate and happenstance (or, more correctly, screenwriter contrivance) land him in the back of a truck carrying a fresh load of illegal émigrés bound for New York City. On the ride, Juan makes the acquaintance of sad-eyed Pedro (Jorge Adrián Espíndola), whose identity and mission (to seek out his long lost father Diego) he appropriates for himself. Diego, wonderfully portrayed by Jesús Ochoa, supposedly owns a restaurant, so Juan senses a quick and easy score. Keith Uhlich
