Argentina Hotels Travel - Colma: The Musical
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Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Starring: Jake Moreno, H.P. Mendoza, L.A. Renigen, Sigrid Sutter, Brian Raffi
Directed By: Richard Wong (III)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0031398221104
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-11-20
Running Time: 100
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Reviews:
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Better than I expected
Comment: I enjoyed this film. Anyone who grew up in an irrelevant place can relate to the characters. They know they live outside the main action happening elsewhere. The film explores the sense of stagnation people feel when they're ready to move on, and also tackles the darker emotional issues that drives one character away from the friends he grew up with.
Nevertheless, the film tries to capture what beauty there is in this overlooked suburb. The shots of the cemetery, swirling fog and eucalyptus trees are lovely.
In the end, the case is made both for the friends who leave for better things, and for the perhaps even more courageous young woman who decides there's no place like home.
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Summary: Stays, as Colma
Comment: I wish this was a better film. Because it is so infectious and original that its mistakes are made more visible. I have seen "Colma" in the Buenos Aires International Independent Cinema Festival of 2007 (BAFICI) and since then I cannot take those catchy songs from my head. Every couple of months, they surface up again. It doesn't help that I bookmarked "Colma"'s MySpace page. Ok, so my review in few words: an inventive low-budget musical marred by drama in the second part. Thank you.
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Summary: Disappointing...not what I expected
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I had heard great things about this. I guess I interpreted musical to mean soundtrack over people singing the story lines. The singing is too muddled to keep track of what's going on.
Interesting concept, execution falls short.
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Summary: No-Budget Coming-of-Age Musical Reflects a Worthy First Effort
Comment: There's a simple emotional acuity at the heart of this 2007 coming-of-age musical. True, at a poverty row budget of $15,000, it has the production values of a direct-to-hotel porn movie, but first-time director Richard Wong and first-time screenwriter, songwriter and co-lead H.P. Mendoza manage to make something substantive from the tired premise of three close friends just out of high school and still reeling from painful romantic breakups and experiencing the social alienation that makes their respective roads to self-discovery bumpy ones. The acting feels stilted and the music rather derivative, but the film somehow makes it to the finish line through its honesty about how life is for social outcasts living in San Francisco's suburban necropolis. It's all the more forgivable for the enthusiastic effort that shows.
Shot on digital video in the real town of Colma, the movie opens with the three leads singing the Rent-inspired rave-up, "Colma Stays", which describes the anonymous small town with clever imagery. Lanky Jake Moreno plays Billy, the most inchoate of the trio, an aspiring actor who not only lands a sales job at the mall (Serramonte for all you SF locals) but also a supporting role in a local community theater production. He can't seem to get over his ex-girlfriend much to the chagrin of not only a smitten fellow actress but also close pal Maribel. With a cheery spark masking an uncertain melancholy, the cherubic L.A. Renigen makes party girl Maribel the earthbound glue holding the trio together just barely. Her shining moment comes with "Crash the Party", a dead ringer for Blondie's "Dreamin'", preceded by the film's funniest moment, a frozen-stare purchase of alcohol with fake IDs similar to the liquor store scene in Superbad.
The most challenged and challenging character is Rodel, played with studied deadpan by Mendoza. Rodel is a gay poet and slacker, closeted from his traditional Filipino father and increasingly jealous of Billy's ability to move on with his life. He provides the film's most painfully realistic moments, as well as the most lacerating lines. Yet, his plaintive rendition of "One Day (Pt. 2)" provides genuine heart to the story's climactic moment. Not everything is wondrous. Moreno's nasal vocals, which make him sound like Bert on Sesame Street, get wearing for the repetitive monotone. The barroom shanty scene runs too long, especially in ¾ time, and the "Deadwalking" duet between Renigen and Mendoza is marred by the arty Bergmanesque intrusion of ghostly couples dancing in the cemetery. The 2007 DVD offers a few surprising extras given the film's low budget - an infectious and insightful commentary track from Wong and Mendoza and fifteen minutes of deleted and extended scenes that were wisely excised from the final cut. Definitely a worthy first effort.
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Summary: Colma is a wonderful place to visit . . .
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Very simple premise: three friends--two guys and a girl, one guy is gay and they've recently graduated from high school--live in Colma (just outside of San Francisco) and hang out together and break into song now and then. The musical score by H.P. Mendoza (who also wrote the film and stars as the gay character) is what makes the film so unique. The songs are catchy and fun and a joy to listen to. And the young cast (Mr. Mendoza, Jake Moreno and L.A. Renigen) sing them with such energy, it's infectious to watch. I fell in love with this movie, and I hope you do, too. I can't wait to see what Mr. Mendoza does next.
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