In addition to Film Forum, the film’s distributor, the Weinstein Company, will be opening the movie in just three other theaters, one more in New York and two in Los Angeles, giving it the kind of debut that might be afforded a Mexican documentary.

In Ethan Hawke’s film of his novel The Hottest State, Catalina Sandino Moreno finally plays a woman who doesn’t have to sneak into the country, here she’s a New York singer who falls for a scruffy white guy (Mark Webber).