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ance class with J-Lo in El CantanteBy Charlotte O'Sullivan, Evening Standard 04.09.08

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Other half: Jennifer Lopez plays the 'homely and vulgar' wife of salsa king Hector Lavoe

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A jittery biopic about Puerto Rican salsa legend Hector Lavoe, El Cantante will not be to everyone's taste. A J-Lo vehicle that she herself seems to have lost interest in, it's been sitting on the shelf since 2006. But don't let a little dust put you off.

In the first scene, which sets the faux-documentary mood, we see Lopez Acting. She overacts quite a bit, yet what she and the film-makers are trying to do is difficult. She plays Lavoe's wife, Puchi, who met him before he was famous and hung on for the ride. Shrill, stroppy, oppressively supportive and not averse to the odd snort of coke, she struggles to be taken seriously by the world at large.

She is too New York for Lavoe's relatives, she is too female for his musician pals. A marginal figure who refuses to stay in the shadows, she's too much altogether, so it's fitting that Lopez herself sometimes grates.

Convincing both as a teen and as a grizzled middle-aged woman, she makes every costume change (there are 50!) work. She is also the perfect foil for the film's real star: pop singer Marc Anthony (Lopez's real-life husband) is magnetic as Lavoe. All bulging eyes and boyish confusion - he moves like an anorexic snake - it is nevertheless easy to believe in the man's charisma and talent. Anthony, who has a fine voice, interprets Lavoe's songs with feeling. He is also a subtle actor. We have no trouble accepting that Lavoe slept around, loved guns and - even before he became addicted to heroin - made Puchi and their son's life difficult. His insecurities wax and wane, yet Anthony never telegraphs the mood swings. A scene involving Lavoe, Puchi and their break-dancing son is horrible precisely because it begins on a such a convincingly sweet note.

The film did not go down well in the US. The charge - apart from the fact that Lopez and Anthony, being New Yorkers, know nothing about salsa, and that Puchi was a "homely, vulgar woman" who deserted Lavoe when he needed her most - is that it provides a "negative" view of the Latino community by focusing on Lavoe's drug use and death from Aids.

In fact, Lopez deserves praise for pushing this project. The recently deceased Puchi (who helped generate the script and pushed for Lopez to play her) is not the kind of character you see on screen every day. She has not been whitewashed and neither, thank goodness, has her husband. Let's save positive films for the tourists and keep meaty dramas for ourselves.

El Cantante

Kevin Maher

The Jennifer Lopez-produced El Cantante could do with a dose of narrative Viagra. An ostensible biopic of the 1980s "Salsa King" Hector Lavoe, it opens in grand form, in 1985, with Lavoe (Marc Anthony, J-Lo's hubby) being forcibly dragged from a crack-house to a Manhattan concert, where he wows the crowds with his nifty Latino beats.

The rest of the film, however, beginning with a flashback to 1963, is a soft-pedalled account of Lavoe's rise to fame and his drug-related downfall that has more in common with the biopic parody Walk Hard than anything as muddy as real life. In a postmodern twist, J-Lo plays Lavoe's feisty wife Puchi, and thus we get to see what life chez Lopez would be like if they were coke-snorting gun-toting nouveau riche simpletons rather than the fabulous superstar lovers that they clearly are.

15, 106 minutes

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