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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:
Scarcely represents a convincing, satisfying treatment of the intriguing subject matter.
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Variety
Though the picture doesn't build from scene to scene, that doesn't matter: Each segment on its own is richly detailed and vivid.
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Washington Post
...What we do get is a vivid impression of these young women and their world...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: B- --
Anders' subject, Latinas gangs, is significant, but the treatment and execution are flawed.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 2/5 --
Crazy it may be, but interesting? Well...
Kalamazoo Gazette
Anders mixes real gang members with up-and-coming Latin American actresses, but this ploy fails to lend the film authenticity or vitality. The tone seems, to put it kindly, misguidedly romantic.
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Time Out
Rating: C+ --
My main problem is that I found the girls a bore and likewise the pic.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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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