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Pero sigo siendo el rey
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Wikipedia article
'Pero sigo siendo el rey' ("But I'm Still the King" in Spanish) is a 1988 Mexican musical drama film, directed by Ren Cardona Jr. and starring Leonardo Daniel, Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo, Lourdes Mungua, and Sonia Infante. The film is a biopic that portrays the life of Mexican singer-songwriter Jos Alfredo Jimnez, and its title comes from Jimnez's song "El Rey".
Cast
Production
The film was made after the success of 'Sabor a m', a biopic about the Mexican singer-songwriter lvaro Carrillo, also directed by Ren Cardona Jr. The life of Jos Alfredo Jimnez had already been portrayed in cinema before in 'Que te vaya bonito' (1978); however, 'Pero sigo siendo el rey' had a bigger budget.
Reception
'Cinema Ameriq Latine 2000' criticized the film, saying that it was "weighed down by too narrow a view of the forms a genuinely popular artist's existence took" and that it was "a plethora of historical incongruities." It also highlights that the film "abuses the use of songs (which add up to 22), which add nothing or almost nothing to the logic or structure of the story, and most of them are executed without the minimum necessary encouragement to make them moving."
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