I heard about this movie early last year through trailers on TV. I enjoy watching foreign movies as well as low-budget movies, as they have a charm of their own.
Being addicted to downloading most of what I watch on TV, supporting piracy for that matter, I recently persevered with the lowest rate of download for a whole week just to watch this film.
For those of you who do not know what quinceañera is, it is a coming-of-age celebration for girls who reach 15 years. This event is commonly practiced in Latin America and traditions vary from one country to the other.
Back to the movie, It was a refreshing, well portrayed exposure to a tradition that one doesn't hear about often. It starts really cute, with a lavish party for a rich 15-year old Hispanic girl and a bunch of old ladies slamming the tequilas. it quickly then diverts your focus to Magdelena, played by Emily Rios, who did a great job. Her acting was mature and natural. While watching the movie, you couldn't help but really feel it was a low-budget movie, I just couldn't get into it so well for me to forget that fact. I felt that its target audience were teenagers. It lacked the adult feel to it in the story-line (and I don't mean by that porn!), however you do come across homosexual references in the plot. I also was disappointed towards the end, when the movie becomes Americanised. By that I mean, script lines referring to things as 'Miracle' and a certain person as a 'Saint' and an attitude of 'I can conquer the world'. What I also couldn't understand in the movie was, how come Magdelena's bump grew bigger, yet her butt remained the same size!
This movie won 2 awards in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was screened in the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.
Will I watch it again? I don't think so. I actually trashed it.
Being addicted to downloading most of what I watch on TV, supporting piracy for that matter, I recently persevered with the lowest rate of download for a whole week just to watch this film.
For those of you who do not know what quinceañera is, it is a coming-of-age celebration for girls who reach 15 years. This event is commonly practiced in Latin America and traditions vary from one country to the other.
Back to the movie, It was a refreshing, well portrayed exposure to a tradition that one doesn't hear about often. It starts really cute, with a lavish party for a rich 15-year old Hispanic girl and a bunch of old ladies slamming the tequilas. it quickly then diverts your focus to Magdelena, played by Emily Rios, who did a great job. Her acting was mature and natural. While watching the movie, you couldn't help but really feel it was a low-budget movie, I just couldn't get into it so well for me to forget that fact. I felt that its target audience were teenagers. It lacked the adult feel to it in the story-line (and I don't mean by that porn!), however you do come across homosexual references in the plot. I also was disappointed towards the end, when the movie becomes Americanised. By that I mean, script lines referring to things as 'Miracle' and a certain person as a 'Saint' and an attitude of 'I can conquer the world'. What I also couldn't understand in the movie was, how come Magdelena's bump grew bigger, yet her butt remained the same size!
This movie won 2 awards in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was screened in the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.
Will I watch it again? I don't think so. I actually trashed it.
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