American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez Review - Portrait of Chicano Trailblazer is Joyous But Thinly Drawn
Trailblazing Chicano filmmaker and theater director Luis Valdez has frequently experienced, first hand, the refrain that life imitates art. When Zoot Suit premiered, the first Chicano play on Broadway (at the Winter Garden Theater, no less), Valdez's work was excoriated in eight reviews by critics who used coded (and not so coded) language to strip him of his artistry. It was a play that loosely dramatized elements of the Zuit Suit Riots, in which young Chicano men were stripped nude from their trademark threads; in the press, Valdez felt tarred and feathered.
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