I'm No Longer Here
A teenage cumbia subculture leader is forced from Monterrey to New York, where migration turns his struggle for belonging into a poignant crisis of identity.
Overview
A young man's journey from the vibrant streets of Monterrey to the challenges of New York City reveals the complexities of identity and belonging.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- melancholic
- wistful
- intimate
- reflective evening
- international cinema night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised its honest, visually poetic treatment of identity and assimilation, finding its occasional narrative unevenness outweighed by its cultural specificity and emotional force.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Los Terkos and related groups express belonging through slowed cumbia, distinctive clothing, hairstyles, dance, and gang alliances.
Ulises struggles to assimilate in Queens while longing for Monterrey and fearing the disappearance of his cultural world.
Slowed cumbia organizes the youths' parties, style, friendships, and sense of collective identity.
The story moves between Ulises's life in Monterrey and his immigrant experience in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Films like I'm No Longer Here, and why
The Namesake
shared immigrant experience, youth alienation, cultural displacement, and melancholic coming-of-age drama
In Between Days
shared diasporic identity, urban assimilation, and intimate cross-cultural drama
La Haine
shared street youth culture, social marginalization, and visually poetic realism
Fish Tank
shared music-driven subculture, adolescent belonging, and bittersweet identity conflict
Movie Details
- Director
- Luis Fernando Frías de la Parra
- Release Date
- 2019-10-21
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 (537)
Cast
- Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño
- Jonathan Espinoza
- Xueming Angelina Chen
- Bianca Coral Puente Valenzuela
- Tania Alvarado
- Fanny Tovar
- Luis Leonardo Zapata
- Yahir Alday
- Leonardo Garza
- Deyanira Coronado
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is I'm No Longer Here about?
- A teenage cumbia subculture leader is forced from Monterrey to New York, where migration turns his struggle for belonging into a poignant crisis of identity.
- What is I'm No Longer Here like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of I'm No Longer Here as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is I'm No Longer Here violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in I'm No Longer Here as moderate.
- What did critics think of I'm No Longer Here?
- Critics broadly praised its honest, visually poetic treatment of identity and assimilation, finding its occasional narrative unevenness outweighed by its cultural specificity and emotional force.
- Which films are like I'm No Longer Here?
- Films with a similar feel include The Namesake, In Between Days, La Haine, and Fish Tank.
- How long is I'm No Longer Here?
- I'm No Longer Here runs 112 minutes.
- Where can I watch I'm No Longer Here?
- In United States, I'm No Longer Here streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
