Title: Cesar Chavez<\/b><\/p>\n
Director: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller<\/b><\/p>\n
Starring: Michael Pe\u00f1a, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson, Yancey Arias, Wes Bentley, Michael Cudlitz, Gabriel Mann, John Malkovich, Mark Moses, Jacob Vargas, Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal.<\/b><\/p>\n
Director Luna, began his career as telenovela actor when he was still a child, he then established himself with the finespun independent movie \u2018Y tu mam\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n,\u2019 along with supporting roles in American films. When Luna decided to move to\u00a0 directing, he always focused on social topics, just as he did in his latest \u2018Cesar Chavez,\u2019 that touches on several major nonviolent campaigns by the United Farm Workers in California such as the Delano grape strike, the Salad Bowl strike and the 1975 Modesto march.<\/p>\n
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Luna\u2019s movie brings on the big screen the true story of the American labour leader who gathered 50,000 braceros, i.e. manual temporary agricultural workers from Mexico, and helped them stand up for their rights, by creating a union.<\/p>\n
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This biopic marks the first feature film on C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez, although numerous books, magazine articles, and scholarly studies have been written about the labour leader. Several writers and producers had tried for years to obtain the rights to Ch\u00e1vez’s life story, but failed, until screenwriter Keir Pearson (who established himself with the exquisite script of \u2018Hotel Rwanda\u2019) negotiated for two years with Chavez’s heirs before he and production partner, television producer Larry Meli, were able to secure the rights to Ch\u00e1vez’s life in 2011.<\/p>\n
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Luna\u2019s movie has very well casted actors. Michael Pe\u00f1a, son of a Mexican farmer emigrated to the United States, seemed the perfect fit to star as Cesar Chavez. Just as America Ferrera brilliantly plays his quiet behind-the scenes wife; Rosario Dawson embodies with vigour the civil rights activist Dolores Huerta and John Malkovich boldly embodies the figure of the villain, agricultural producer Bogdanovitch, along with his son, interpreted by former fashion model Gabriel Mann.<\/p>\n
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The well-shot flick somehow portrays the Latino version of \u201912 Years A Slave,\u2019 where themes that relate to race and civil rights evoke crucial historical changes through the potent cinematic tool.<\/p>\n
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Technical: B<\/b><\/p>\n
Acting: B+<\/b><\/p>\n
Story: A<\/b><\/p>\n
Overall: A-<\/b><\/p>\n
Written by: Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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