A great reason to go to a movie "My People"... I saw this coming attraction last week and was immediately drawn to the film. It SCREAMED "Love" and screamed "Crazy, Passionate, Puerto Rican people" (like ME)! It's a quirky but fabulous lil Puerto Rican Indie film - executive produced by Benicio Del Toro and starring Luis Guzman (AKA Pachanga) - and that's all it took to get me to run like a bat outta hell into the AMC theatre sola...
Maldeamores (Lovesickness), the film I speak of, chronicles three stories of love and loss interweaved in this passionate drama. In the first story, a young boy experiences his first kiss from a girl at the same time he finds out that his father has been cheating on his mother (DRAMA). In the second story, a man desperate to marry the woman of his dreams holds the bus she drives for a living hostage (PYSCHO). Lastly, an elderly divorced couple still living together gets a surprise when the woman’s first husband shows up on the scene (AY AY AY).
Yes, it is full of drama, but there is so much more to love about this movie aside from that. I love the writing, and good writing is def hard to come by these days. It is witty and insightful and engaging from start to finish. Of course being Puerto Rican, I could appreciate the authenticity of the language and the dichos used in the characters (being that it takes place in Puerto Rico). I felt like I was listening to my family talk the entire time and that made it even more special to me. Even though you won't have to be Puerto Rican to appreciate this movie. You will still relate to the characters and to the situations faced no matter where you come from or who your families are. Whether this movie shocks you or enrages you, or just makes you laugh you will become engaged, emotionally. (The viejitos "cute lil' old people" are hilarious and I'd like to be like them when I grow up)!
So, the moral of the story is, go see Maldeamores! The only way to see more Latino movies made in or distributed by Hollywood is if the few that they put out are successful. So go support a movie that is actually worthwhile!
Bendiciones!
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