Movie review: 'Chico & Rita' marries dazzling animation to the music of the '40s
While watching the enchanting “Chico & Rita,” you can’t help lamenting that there are so few adult-themed animations striving to so vividly bring to life epic love stories set against the background of a bygone era when art, culture and history rapturously collide.
Like Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning “Midnight in Paris,” the stunningly beautiful “Chico & Rita” whisks us back in time to rub elbows with some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. But instead of literary titans like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, we make time with Cuban jazz greats like Tito Puente and Chano Pozo. The likes of Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker also appear in animated form. It’s their music, though, that makes the picture. And what glorious jazz nuggets they are, each pristinely assembled by the film’s music director, Grammy-winner Bebo Valdes, himself a veteran of Cuba’s golden era of music in the late 1940s.






@ Yes I had a lot of time and fast eyes... But I don't think I'll read the other books. The story is great, but tiringly complex.
time! All eyes on the Hawkeye State tonight. (@ Polk County Convention Complex) 





