El Cantante Page #8

Synopsis: The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002. In the early 1960s, Héctor arrives in New York from Ponce, Puerto Rico. Success comes quickly. "The more he grew as an artist," Puchi says, "the more he sank as a person." It's a tale of talent - creating salsa with Willie Colón, with the Fania All Stars, and as a soloist - and a story of disintegration - fueled by drugs, alcohol, partying, and depression. Puchi's voice - proud and querulous - dominates off-stage as Héctor's does on.
Director(s): Leon Ichaso
Production: Picturehouse
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%
R
Year:
2006
106 min
$7,488,649
Website
258 Views


You guys fix all your f***ing problems,

but I'm gonna sing, bro.

I'm a professionaI.

Let's go, let's go.

Let's go, let's go, man.

? Soon?

? My lucky day will come?

? I hope that before I die?

? My luck will change?

? Soon?

? My lucky day will come?

? I hope that before I die?

? My luck will change?

? Soon?

? My lucky day will come?

? I hope that before I die?

? My luck will change?

Yo!

Hey, pull the sound back up!

Pull the sound back.

- Pull the f***ing sound back up!

- Hello?

"Hector I LOVE YOU SO MUCH"

Hey!

Go on, go on, go on,

damn it, go on!

? Soon?

? My lucky day will come?

? I hope that before I die?

? My luck will change?

? Soon?

? My lucky day will come?

? I hope that before I die?

? My luck will change?

? Many times I've stopped

to think?

? That I've never done

anybody any harm?

? Why has life treated

me this way?

? When I'm just looking

for happiness??

? I try to make people happy?

? But what I've said here

has been fataI?

? I don't lose hope that I'll fight?

? And surely my luck with change,

but when will that be??

Hurry up!

Help him, please.

I mean, how do you

live through that, right?

What did they expect

from him?

What, that he was

f***ing Superman?

King Kong couldn't

live through that.

I mean, I- sometimes I wonder

what I'm doing

sitting here in one piece.

Everybody in the story

is f***ing dead.

He had multiple fractures

and broken bones

and he hurt

all his insides

which were already all f***ed up

from all the drugs and the alcohoI,

and he survived.

You know what?

The motherf***er survived the fall.

He hit an air conditioning shaft

on the way down

outside

Johnny Pacheco's room

and he bounced, that's all.

But if he would have

hit the concrete,

he would have been dead, forget it.

But he didn't.

He did- he lived.

He lived

five more years.

But it wasn't reaI life.

And I wasn't there for him

all the time, you know?

Never never

leave me, baby.

It's not the same thing

as being there with you.

touching you,

kissing you.

You know, well.

I'd better stop.

Just wanted to tell you

over and over that I love you.

I'm right here with you.

You see me.

Happy birthday, Puchi. Happy bi-

I wanted to remember him

like he was.

Like he wanted me to.

? El le le?

? Today I dedicate to you?

? my best testaments?

? Today I dedicate to you?

? my best testaments?

? Today I dedicate to you?

? my best testaments?

? They're better than yesterday's?

? Compare me, critics?

? Today I dedicate to you?

? My best testaments?

? If you don't love me in life?

? Don't cry for me when I die?

? Today I dedicate to you?

? My best testaments?

? Dance if

you want to dance?

? Sing if you want to sing, momma?

? Today I dedicate to you?

? My best testaments?

? I am the singer and

we've come to celebrate?

? I don't want any sadness,

my thing is to sing, sing?

? Today I dedicate to you?

? My best testaments?

? There are those

who sing like a girI?

? I sing like a man?

? Today I dedicate to you?

? My best testaments?

I love you.

? My best testaments?

? My best testaments?

? My best testaments?

? My best testaments?

? My best testaments.?

The singer of all singers,

Hector Lavoe!

? And why bother reading?

? Yesterday's newspaper??

? Because I'm going to read you?

? A love story?

? That I can't even believe?

? And why bother reading

yesterday's newspaper??

? I loved you,

I had you, I kept you?

? But I don't love you anymore?

? And why bother reading?

? Yesterday's newspaper??

? I won't go to your house,

little girI?

? You let me in

and I go crazy, crazy?

? And why bother reading?

? Yesterday's newspaper??

? In the album of my life?

? There's a hidden page?

? I'll find you there?

? And why bother reading?

? Yesterday's newspaper??

? Go on, get away from me,

good thing?

? I don't want to see you anymore?

? And why bother reading

yesterday's newspaper??

? What's wrong with you?

You're crying?

? You have a paper souI?

? And why bother reading

yesterday's newspaper??

? And just like the paper

endures everything?

? That's just how I treated you?

? And why bother reading

yesterday's newspaper??

? Look over your story?

? And then you'll

be able to get it.?

? Hey hey hey hey?

? Hey hey

hey hey?

? Hey hey hey hey?

- ? Hey hey hey hey?

- Yeah!

? Hey hey

hey hey?

? Hey hey hey hey?

? Hey hey

hey hey?

There you go!

- ? Hey hey hey hey?

- Whoo!

? Hey hey

hey hey?

? Hey hey hey hey?

? Hey hey

hey hey?

? Hey hey hey hey?

- ? Hey hey hey hey?

- ? Yeah!?

- ? Hey hey hey hey?

- Whoo!

? Hey hey hey hey?

? Hey hey

hey hey?

? Hey hey hey hey?

? Hey hey

hey hey...?

? Yeah!?

Whoo!

? Hey hey hey hey...?

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Leon Ichaso

Leon Ichaso (born August 3, 1948) is a Cuban American writer and film director. more…

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