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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 14, 2004
- Originally Released: 1994
- Label: HBO Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Seidy Lopez | |
Performer: | Angel Aviles, Jacob Vargas, Marlo Marron, Jesse Borrego, Magali Alvarado & Julian Reyes | |
Directed by | Allison Anders |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Anders tries what few directors would have had the interest of intelligence to think of....Daring...
New York Times
...An ensemble of superior actors....Clarity and a lot of heart. -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
...A vivid tale...
Premiere
Rating: 3/4 --
Perhaps in not forming into a story, the movie does a service, by not forcing a conclusion where none should exist.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Depicts the struggle of some feisty young woman to survive in the Latina Echo Park area of Los Angeles
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: B- --
Anders' subject, Latinas gangs, is significant, but the treatment and execution are flawed.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3/4 --
Directed by Allison Anders ("Gas Food Lodging") . . .the resulting mosaic is nonetheless powerful and sobering.
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Chicago Tribune
Product Description:
MI VIDA LOCA is a compelling look at a microcosm of East L.A.'s Echo Park. Writer and director Allison Anders (GAS FOOD LODGING) lived in the neighborhood for many years with her daughter, inspiring her to make this film about life in a Latina girl gang. The film is sympathetic to these young women, presenting their stories honestly and with a visual flair that the subjects themselves would probably appreciate. The stories are told as a series of vignettes with different narrators, each with his or her perspective on the events portrayed. This approach allows the characters the opportunity to explain their actions, giving the audience a better understanding of behavior they might otherwise easily condemn. The key players are Mousie (Seidy Lopez) and Sad Girl (Angel Aviles), best friends who let local drug dealer Ernesto (Jacob Vargas) come between them. The film is a wonderfully realized slice-of-life: sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, and, despite its seemingly incongruously elegeiac tone, with a strong ring of truth.
Keywords:
Friends
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Rivalry
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Teenage
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Social Issues
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Recommended
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Hispanic
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Independent
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- Sales Rank: 34,435
- UPC: 026359118821
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