“A wisp of plot, sexy leads and lots of music genially float Cumbia Connection, René U. Villareal’s debut feature,” writes Dennis Harvey for Variety. Filmed in Monterrey—Mexico’s industrial capital and third largest metropolitan area—Villareal situates his musically-driven love story within the colony of Independence, located in the center of Monterrey, and better known as la Colombia regiomontana because of the colony’s distinctive colombiano style—a lower class youthful subculture characterized by color-coded outfits, insider slang and frenetic dances—which challenge the city’s conservative, corporate tone.
Located just a few kilometers south of Texas, Monterrey bears evident American influence and—despite the fact that its inhabitants are deeply Mexican—its youthful underclass passionately identifies with Colombia, especially Colombian music. These colombianos have appropriated Colombia’s cumbia and vallenato dance forms into their popular culture by first imitating and then recreating them into something expressly their own.
Located just a few kilometers south of Texas, Monterrey bears evident American influence and—despite the fact that its inhabitants are deeply Mexican—its youthful underclass passionately identifies with Colombia, especially Colombian music. These colombianos have appropriated Colombia’s cumbia and vallenato dance forms into their popular culture by first imitating and then recreating them into something expressly their own.
- 9/26/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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