I didn't know I would cry...WARNING JUST A BIT OF A SPOILER

jacquesjunk

Warning that because I have said I cried, I felt I should say this is a bit of a spoiler...just a bit!! I have tried to see this movie several times, but only gotten pieces of it (the trials of being a working mother who gets interrupted constantly....!). I never realized how well-made it was, how amazing Antonio Banderas was (not knowing any English at the time), and how much the ending affected me. I come from a family of musicians -we're not Latino, but still, once you've decided that is your life it is very hard to do anything else- and this is a heart-breaking story of love, loss, artistic passion, family loyalty, and the effect of the time/era (1950's) on music and immigrants to the US (I'm a Canadian, but my husband is an Irish-American musician).  I, too, know what it is like to have to do the "straight" job to pay the bills when all you want is to be what you were born to be.  Desi Arnaz Jr. did a great job too, and the effects with the I Love Lucy Show were better than Forrest Gump!

See this movie, but get your kleenex ready... .

score 10/10

jacquesjunk 29 February 2004

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0309977/