Searching for Love And Life in Echo Park

“”Quinceañera,” written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland is an Anglo take on Mexican-American culture in Los Angeles which approaches its subject with an easy sentimentality that spoils, I think, what might otherwise have been an interesting glimpse into contemporary Chicano life.

As Messrs. Glatzer and Westmoreland see it, all that is needed for their picturesque and sympathetic Mexicans is a wholesome lesson in socially and sexually progressive values from Anglos like themselves. Once they understand how old-fashioned and out-ofdate their attitude toward sex is, then all their “judgmentalism” will simply dissolve in a warm bath of family feeling and togetherness.”

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