Movies
August, 1994
Teeming with the life of the barrio in a Los Angeles neighborhood known as Echo Park, Mi Vida Loca (Sony Classics) wrings poetry from poverty and ethnic angst. In a follow-up to Gas, Food, Lodging, writer-director Allison Anders focuses on the homegirls whose homeboys are soon likely to face long prison terms or death. Beautiful Giggles (Mario Marron), just out of jail herself, smirks when an admirer promises to take care of her. "The last man who said that to me is dead," she tells hi...
