Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas

Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas
by Rosie Perez, Liz Garbus

Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas
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Actor: Carmen Serrano, Chema Soto, Jimmy Smits, Rosie Perez, Sixto Ramos
Director: Liz Garbus, Rosie Perez
Composer: Carlos Valdez
Editor: Kate Taverna
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Red Envelope Ent

Movie Reviews of Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas

Movie Review: It's Just Awful-PERIOD!
Summary: 1 Stars

Don't let my name fool you, I know the Island of Puerto Rico and the people of the island well.It's a great place with many many wonderful people.
Granted, the slant here is on a Nuyorican viewpoint, except that
Rosie Perez and company never really get to a concrete reason of what and why they should be so "proud". Instead, she concentrates on the style of displays the annual parades emphasize,NOT on the real struggles and culture of the island, and why the status problem, at this stage is
actually OFFENSIVE.
This vanity project should never have been green lighted, and likely was done only because of ignorance; you won't really learn much about Puerto Rico here.
Boricuas deserve better....sorry,Rosie.

Summary of Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas

The famous Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City jump-starts Rosie Perez's witty take on Puerto Rican culture. The parade marches to its own ecstatic beat, as does its people through triumph and indignity. Perez, the Academy Award?-nominated actress turned filmmaker, never lets the footing get too heavy. She and codirector Oscar?-nominated documentarian Liz Garbus enlighten through humor and Perez's own sparkling presence. Weaving snippets of Perez and her family with thought-provoking history narrated by actor Jimmy Smits, the filmmakers render a pastiche of unbridled optimism. The title is a contagious colloquial chant of the island's indigenous people, the Ta?no. Puerto Ricans do not doubt their identity, the subjects of the film tell us, but they are determined to let the rest of the world know who they are. Pride, often an overused word, comes alive in a documentary that goes down as easily as a frothy cocktail-and still packs a punch. American exploitation and the fight for political clout are no laughing matters but Boricua shows that toughness sometimes means laughing in the face of such obstacles. In one funny bit, Perez encounters an acute case of mistaken perception on her way to a speaking engagement. As her brethren illustrate throughout the film, the show must go on. Puerto Ricans' contributions to the arts and their inextricable link to New York City (Perez grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, just so you know!) reveal the beating heart of a small island whose arteries course throughout society. - Ron Dicker

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