• • • Journey to the End of the Night (2006) - Introducing Catalina Sandino Moreno

Journey to the End of the Night (2006)

Catalina Sandino Moreno is playing Angie

Quick Facts

Director Eric Eason
Script Eric Eason
Genre Drama/Thriller
Tagline You can escape anything but your destiny
Shooting August-October 2005 in São Paulo, Brazil
Festivals Tribeca Film Festival (April 28, 2006)
DVD Release USA: February 27, 2007
Starring Brendan Fraser, Mos Def, Scott Glenn, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Alice Braga

Synopsis

São Paulo, Brazil, is considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world. But it is there, in the city’s underworld of sex, drugs, money, and corruption that a father and son plan to finally shrug off the drudgery of their everyday lives.

Catalina’s character, Angie, is married to an older man, Rosso (Scott Glenn). Together they have a 5 year-old son, Lazare. Rosso is paranoid and has doubts if his beautiful and young wife truly loves him. He and his sadistic son Paul (Brendan Fraser) are plotting separately to use money from a stolen suitcase of cocaine as their ticket out of Brazil. To ensure that the deal is a success, Rosso recruits Nigerian dishwasher Wemba (Mos Def) as the drug mule. But when Wemba suddenly vanishes, Paul goes on a warpath that involves a transgender hooker and a fortune-teller’s dog.

Quotes by Catalina

To be in São Paulo was exciting. It’s perfect. It felt like home. Bogotá is more or less like this city - it’s very alive and everything is happening very fast.

Quote by producer James Acheson

Catalina’s role is diametrically different and, in a sense, more challenging than her first film. In Maria Full of Grace, she plays an active character who shapes her own fate. In Journey, Catalina portrays someone who is inherently passive. A young woman - who through a kind of moral inertia — has allowed herself to be dragged into a situation that she never imagined—and one in which she sees no escape.

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