August 30, 2011 \ Geoff Birmingham
Romantico: A Strenuous Life
Romántico is sad, funny, visually beautiful, heart-wrenching, soulful, moving, and poignant. And I almost didn't watch it. The Netflix description is so inaccurate - "two Mariachi singers play for unappreciative audiences in San Francisco" - that I came very close to skipping over it. A truer description of the story line might say something about the unhappy quandary Carmelo Sanchez finds himself...
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