Romantico (documentary2005)

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Documentary filmmaker Mark Becker introduces itinerant musician, guitarist, and singer Carmelo Muñiz Sánchez busking at restaurants and taquerías in San Franciscos Mission District. The film follows Carmelo back to the cramped quarters he shares with other illegal immigrants from South America, as he frankly recalls the trials and tribulations of his longtime musical partnership with his friend Arturo Arias, who frequently succumbs to the pressures of their precarious life through alcohol. What sustains Carmelo is his family back home in Salvatierra, over a thousand miles south of the U.S. border, which he left in 1997 when he was 54 years old. He is proud the money he earns washing cars and serenading will help his two daughters with their school expenses, and will hopefully provide a nice quinceañera for his eldest. On a daily basis, Carmelo recalculates the money he can make singing lushly romantic ballads, for at best $50 a night, versus the yearning for his family (and they for him)...

A documentary by Mark Becker, 2005.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065521/

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