West Side Story

San Juan Hill. 1950's New York. White and Latin gangs fight like fools for control of a dozen city blocks about to be knocked down. The Jets and The Sharks. Hate flows between them but love is blossoming behind the scenes. Tony (Ansel Elgort), ex Jet member but still the best friend of Jet leader Riff (Mike Faist) has fallen hard for Maria (Rachel Zegler), the sister of the Shark boss Bernardo (David Alvarez). This will not do and when it's noticed it sets in motion a night that will have life long consequences for everyone involved.

There's quite a bit of Spanish spoken in West Side Story but none of it is subtitled. If you have the basics you'll catch most of it and even if you don't there's enough English mixed in that you'll catch the drift of what's going on. It's a great choice by director Steven Spielberg and it ensures that the Puerto Rican characters speaking never feel alien to us. Now if only everyone felt the same way... pero así es la vida y, lamentablemente, la vida a veces es una mierda.

Incluso si los musicales no son lo tuyo, este te encantará. Una mirada hermosa, inquietante, emocionante e inquietante a la vida y el amor prohibido en el crisol cultural más grande del mundo. Los 160 minutos simplemente pasan volando. Steven Spielberg, que ya es un maestro en su oficio, ha añadido aquí otra flecha a su arco. Ariana DeBose (como Anita, la novia de Bernardo) y Rita Moreno (como la abuela de Tony) son las destacadas aquí, pero no hay un eslabón débil en esta gloriosa fiesta para los sentidos.

Es excelente. Próxima parada de los Oscars