Crossover Dreams

Latin Music star Ruben Blades stars in CROSSOVER DREAMS, a brash and brassy story that does for salsa music roughly what THE HARDER THEY COME did for Reggae. Blades- compared by critics to Bruce Springsteen for his charismatic performing style, driving rhythm, complex lyrics, and political savvy plays Rudy Veloz, a Barrio singing star determined to jump the salsa circuit and aim for big-time success in the mainstream. The rise-and-fall-and-rise storyline takes Rudy on a bumpy ride through life in the fast lane: drugs, compromises, easy credit, easy women, broken promises, and shattered dreams. As in EL SUPER, director Ichaso displays a gift for low-key humor and offhand vignettes, the film's casual structure exploding in exhilarating bursts of lyricism and energy, keyed on flashy fluorescent colors and set to the pervasive Afro-Cuban rhythms provided by Blades and other Hispanic artists such as Conjunto Libre, Andy Gonzoles, Jerry Gonzales, Yomo Toro, Virginia Marti and Marco Rizo.

...

Besoin d'en savoir plus sur ce produit ?