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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 30, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez & John Ortiz | |
Performer: | Manny Perez, Andrea Navedo, Antone Pagan, Jorge Pupo, Edwin Rivera, Nelson Vasquez, Jerry Perez, Vincent Laresca, Jack Mulcahy, Bernard Hernandez, Federico Castelluccio, Melissa Gonzalez, Christopher Becerra, Jared Everleth, Romi Dias, Tony Devon & Marcus Collins | |
Directed by | Leon Ichaso | |
Screenwriting by | Leon Ichaso, David Darmstaeder & Todd Anthony Bello | |
Composition by | Andrés Levin | |
Subject: | Hector Lavoe | |
Produced by | Julio Caro, Simon Fields, Jennifer Lopez & David Maldonado | |
Director of Photography: | Claudio Chea |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/6 --
This messy, maudlin portrait of the decline and decline of Puerto Rico-born salsa star Héctor Lavoe wavers uncertainly between cable channel biopic and socially concerned drug movie.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
It doesn't help that, in the title role, Marc Anthony has all the onscreen charisma of wet dough.
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Film4
Rating: 3/5 --
In fact, Lopez deserves praise for pushing this project. The recently deceased Puchi (who helped generate the script and pushed for Lopez to play her) is not the kind of character you see on screen every day.
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London Evening Standard
Jennifer Lopez plays it tough and down and dirty, on the Mexican border.
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NewsBlaze
Anthony does a convincing turn as the charismatic Lavoe, poetically extemporising his freeform lyrics on stage...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2/4 --
I want a great film about Hector Lavoe, and after watching this, I'm still waiting for it...
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: 2/5 --
The film, however, beginning with a flashback to 1963, is a soft-pedalled account of Lavoe's rise to fame and his drug-related downfall that has more in common with the biopic parody Walk Hard than anything as muddy as real life.
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Times (UK)
Product Description:
Based on the life of salsa legend Hector Lavoe, director Leon Ichaso's EL CANTANTE, follows the beloved Puerto Rican performer (played by Marc Anthony) as he moves to New York City, and rises through the Bronx's vibrant Latin music scene during the 1960s and '70s. Singing with popular trombonist/bandleader Willie Colon (John Ortiz), Lavoe goes on to a successful solo career, but along the way, he becomes a drug addict, sabotaging not only his music, but his relationship with Puchi (a.k.a. Nilda Roman, portrayed by Jennifer Lopez).
Helmed by Ichaso (PINERO) with documentary-like realism, and carried by Anthony, who bears a striking (albeit thinner) resemblance to Lavoe, EL CANTANTE thoughtfully depicts the rise and fall of a remarkably talented vocalist unable to shake debilitating addiction. Husband and wife in real life, Anthony and Lopez reveal a convincing chemistry, and the movie bolsters the Puchi role to give J. Lo more screen time, an aesthetic decision than allows her gentle-yet-determined presence to play off of Anthony's troubled Lavoe. While off-stage drama receives its share of attention in EL CANTANTE, the film also wisely shines the spotlight on Lavoe's charismatic performances, which are captured with grace and gusto by Anthony, a beloved singer in his own right. For fans of Lavoe, Anthony, and Lopez, this labor-of-love project is a must-see biopic that depicts the joy of Latin music against an otherwise difficult backdrop.
Helmed by Ichaso (PINERO) with documentary-like realism, and carried by Anthony, who bears a striking (albeit thinner) resemblance to Lavoe, EL CANTANTE thoughtfully depicts the rise and fall of a remarkably talented vocalist unable to shake debilitating addiction. Husband and wife in real life, Anthony and Lopez reveal a convincing chemistry, and the movie bolsters the Puchi role to give J. Lo more screen time, an aesthetic decision than allows her gentle-yet-determined presence to play off of Anthony's troubled Lavoe. While off-stage drama receives its share of attention in EL CANTANTE, the film also wisely shines the spotlight on Lavoe's charismatic performances, which are captured with grace and gusto by Anthony, a beloved singer in his own right. For fans of Lavoe, Anthony, and Lopez, this labor-of-love project is a must-see biopic that depicts the joy of Latin music against an otherwise difficult backdrop.
Keywords:
Romance
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Theatrical Release
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Latin Music
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Music
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Drug Addiction
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Singers
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1970s
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Musicians
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Heroines
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Salsa