I saw this film last night at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, which by the way, is always great, and very well organized.
Anyway, I thought the acting was very good in this story about Felipe Pirela, a famous Venezuelan bolero singer of the 1960's.
I thought that the directing was OK, but the film is too short. It seems like, as in many biopics, the movie races through everything, from the singer's childhood, right up to the end, giving many of those types of films, including this one, a made for TV look.
I thought that a couple of subplots(for example: the insertion into the story of the guy to whom Pirela owed a lot of money)were not done very well.
On the plus side, the sets looked great, very 1960's, and the characters were, for the most part, developed well.
The film seemed to start slow, but got more interesting as the plot developed. The music/nightclub scenes were done well. Again, it should have been longer, but this is not a bad film.
Anyway, I thought the acting was very good in this story about Felipe Pirela, a famous Venezuelan bolero singer of the 1960's.
I thought that the directing was OK, but the film is too short. It seems like, as in many biopics, the movie races through everything, from the singer's childhood, right up to the end, giving many of those types of films, including this one, a made for TV look.
I thought that a couple of subplots(for example: the insertion into the story of the guy to whom Pirela owed a lot of money)were not done very well.
On the plus side, the sets looked great, very 1960's, and the characters were, for the most part, developed well.
The film seemed to start slow, but got more interesting as the plot developed. The music/nightclub scenes were done well. Again, it should have been longer, but this is not a bad film.
