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Romantico

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10.0 User Score:

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Based on 13 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by:

Directed by: Mark Becker

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 1, 2006
DVD: April 3, 2007

Running Time: 80 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Arturo Arias, and Carmelo Muñiz Sanchez

This feature-length documentary follows Mexican musician Carmelo Muñiz as the troubadour returns home to scratch out a living after years of trying to get ahead in San Francisco. (Meteor Fillms)

What The Critics Said

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80

Village Voice Jordan Harper

Following a hardworking, goodhearted man as life beats the hell out of him, this documentary is moving almost to the point of exploitation.

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80

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

If this terrific documentary doesn't adjust your idea of what it means to have a hard life and a good attitude, you haven’t been paying attention.

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80

Los Angeles Times Sam Adams

Pain, poetry and perseverance form the backbone of Mark Becker's compassionate, well-observed documentary.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

A modest documentary, small in scope and ambition, but it achieves one of the higher callings of art in that it forces viewers to look at a something in a newer, deeper and more humane way.

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75

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Mark Becker's Romantico is beautifully realized on old-fashioned film. And that's only part of its charms.

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75

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

It will be a long time before you forget the deep pain etched into the weary face of Carmelo Muñiz, the mariachi singer at the center of Mark Becker's immensely moving documentary.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The musician is candid about his own demons and gives the filmmakers access to his wife, two very different daughters, and, for a nicely done montage, his family photographs.

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75

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

The value of Romantico is that it lets us experience vicariously what Carmelo and others like him go through.

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70

Variety Dennis Harvey

Engrossing pic is impressively shot, edited and scored.

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60

The New York Times Stephen Holden

This modest, unassuming documentary about an illegal Mexican immigrant living in San Francisco is a case study of a life defined by poverty.

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60

Film Threat Daniel Wible

Works best as a beautifully executed and inspirational work of self-sacrifice.

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50

Chicago Reader Peter Margasak

Carmelo, the central figure, returns home when his mother's health begins to decline, and his love of family, something of an abstraction in the first part, leaves him deeply divided: he wants to care for them personally, but he can better provide for them by returning to the U.S.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

There's nothing extraordinary about mariachi singer Carmelo Muñiz Sánchez, and nothing extraordinary about Mark Becker's documentary profile Romántico.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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