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Romántico
Directed by
Mark Becker
Not Rated
2005
80m
Documentary
7.2
96%
95%
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A troubadour returns home to scratch out a living in Mexico after years of trying to get ahead in San Francisco.
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Where to Watch Romántico
Tubi TV
Free
Cast of Romántico
Arturo Arias
Arturo Arias
Carmelo Muñiz Sanchez
Carmelo Muñiz Sanchez
Mark Becker
Director / Producer
Romántico Ratings & Reviews
culturevulture.net
Beverly Berning
It is like a duet in which both men work together to achieve a kind of cinematic harmony, and out of it comes a beautiful recording of the universal struggle that is life.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
... a fine example of how the new technologies enable filmmakers to tell stories hard to capture before.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
There's nothing extraordinary about mariachi singer Carmelo Muiz Snchez, and nothing extraordinary about Mark Becker's documentary profile Romntico. At times, that seems to be the point.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Romntico would be nothing if it were just a hard-luck story. The movie is something else: the revelation of a way of life, of a whole area of human experience going on right under our noses -- or standing over our restaurant tables.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Romntico is a quiet, admirable slice-of-life documentary, giving us insight into the human condition without claiming universal knowledge of larger questions involving immigration or family responsibility.
Contra Costa Times
Mary F. Pols
The filmmaker has delivered such an insightful look into one man's experience of emigration and homecoming.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
My favorite documentary in well over a year.
Los Angeles Daily News
Glenn Whipp
Becker's movie is subtle, unsentimental, but heart-rending all the same in its portrait of a kind man's single-minded focus on providing a better life for his children.
Los Angeles Times
Sam Adams
The movie's interests tend more toward the personal than the political. Cultural differences notwithstanding, Snchez is the archetype of the overachieving dad, sacrificing his present to provide for his family's future.
L.A. 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.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Snchez's songs might be interrupting your supper. But he is singing urgently for his.
Newsday
John Anderson
No one would pick Carmelo Muiz Sanchez, itinerant mariachi singer and champion of his own lost cause, as a romantic movie hero. Yet, in Mark Becker's beautiful, intimate Romntico he is exactly that.
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 Muiz, the mariachi singer at the center of Mark Becker's immensely moving documentary.
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.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Romantico is muy bueno.
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.
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.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Mark Becker's Romntico may be the documentary of the year.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Unjustly overlooked at Sundance by both auds and jurors, Mark Becker's Romantico is a beautifully lensed -- on actual film -- docu about illegal Mexican immigrants.
Film Threat
Daniel Wible
Romantico works best as a beautifully executed and inspirational work of self-sacrifice.
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