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ACTOR
Raúl CarbonellPatricia ManterolaJoana VargasLuis Jose Lopez
DIRECTOR
Anthony Felton
SYNOPSICS
The King Hector Lavoe (2011) is a English,Spanish movie. Anthony Felton has directed this movie. Raúl Carbonell,Patricia Manterola,Joana Vargas,Luis Jose Lopez are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. The King Hector Lavoe (2011) is considered one of the best Drama,Music movie in India and around the world.
Based on the life story of the great salsa singer Hector Lavoe from Ponce Puerto.
The King Hector Lavoe (2011) Reviews
Makes El Cantante look like Academy-Award caliber film
Hector Lavoe was a complicated brilliant artist who deserves better than films like this and the Marc Antony-Jennifer Lopez fiasco El Cantante. The current poster for the film retitled as "The King Of Salsa: The Untold Story Of Hector Lavoe" implies that the film is a documentary which alas it is not. To see Lavoe at his prime, watch "Celia Cruz & The Fania Allstars In Africa" which was reissued in the US on DVD by Geneon Entertainment in 2002. The film is an embarrassment to all the real-life individuals from the period such as Willie Colon, Johnny Pacheco, Joe Cuba, Yomo Toro and Pete 'El Conde' Rodriguez. None of the actors accomplish anything more than chewing the scenery and emoting under the hackneyed direction of Anthony Felton and the equally bad cinematography of Hernan Herrera. The one worthy surprise was an extra, Luz M. Fuentes, who is stunningly beautiful and more than willing to undress for the good of the film sales effort.
Lavoe biopic has no narrative
The best musical partnership since Lennon and McCartney -- i.e, Héctor Lavoe and Willie Colón- has yet to find a film that does them justice. "Lavoe, The Untold Story" is filled with narrative gaps and melodramatic clichés. The script has plenty of anecdotes from salsa singer Lavoe but there is no narrative link. The film fails in replicating the golden age of Fania records and the great songs by Lavoe and Colon end up as background noise for bad taste and bad acting. Raul Carbonell plays Lavoe with a melodramatic effort, lip syncing Lavoe songs, but his performance is closer to parody. This is a film to avoid.