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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:23
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.5/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 1, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Romántico is a feature-length documentary portrait of Mexican musician Carmelo Muńiz. The film follows Carmelo as the troubadour returns home to scratch out a living after years of trying to get... [More]
The movie's interests tend more toward the personal than the political. Cultural differences notwithstanding, Sánchez is the archetype of the overachieving dad, sacrificing his present to provide for his family's future.
Top CriticNo one would pick Carmelo Muńiz Sanchez, itinerant mariachi singer and champion of his own lost cause, as a romantic movie hero. Yet, in Mark Becker's beautiful, intimate Romántico he is exactly that.
Top CriticMy favorite documentary in well over a year.
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.
Romántico 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.
Top CriticMark Becker's Romántico may be the documentary of the year.
Following a hardworking, goodhearted man as life beats the hell out of him, this documentary is moving almost to the point of exploitation.
Top CriticUnjustly overlooked at Sundance by both auds and jurors, Mark Becker's Romantico is a beautifully lensed -- on actual film -- docu about illegal Mexican immigrants.
Top CriticThis modest, unassuming documentary about an illegal Mexican immigrant living in San Francisco is a case study of a life defined by poverty.
Top CriticRomantico is a very simple film about a very complex problem.
This is a simple yet stunning movie, one that proves that romance can take many different forms.
Romántico 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.
Top CriticRomantico is muy bueno.
Top CriticCarmelo, 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.
Top CriticA touching and worthwhile experience.
Sánchez's songs might be interrupting your supper. But he is singing urgently for his.
Top CriticThe filmmaker has delivered such an insightful look into one man's experience of emigration and homecoming.
There's nothing extraordinary about mariachi singer Carmelo Muńiz Sánchez, and nothing extraordinary about Mark Becker's documentary profile Romántico. At times, that seems to be the point.
A low-key personal portrait that helps you understand an illegal immigrant's desperate psychology. But mostly, it fills you with an aching empathy for this profoundly decent man, who numbly (even heroically) soldiers on.
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.
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