Название: А мне так нравится
Оригинальное название: I Like It Like That
Год выпуска: 1994
Жанр: Комедия, драма, мелодрама
Режиссер: Дарнелл Мартин / Darnell Martin

В ролях: Лорен Велес, Джон Седа, Томас Мэлли / Tomas Melly, Дезри Касадо, Айзиа Гарсиа, Джесси Боррего

Описание:
Сюжет строится вокруг молодой супружеской пары, уже однако имеющей двоих детей. Живут в бедности, но наркотиками не торгуют. Энергичная жена устроилась работать на студию грамзаписи, а муж ревнует и устраивает скандалы. Попутно воспитывают детей.

Plot: Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has designs on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette gets a good job uptown. Can this marriage be saved?

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Производство: США
Продолжительность: 01:36:44
Язык: английский
Субтитры: английские внешние, встроенные отключаемые

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Формат: MPEG-4
Качество: DVD-Rip
Видео: AVC, 720×460, 23.976 kbps, 1217 kbps, 0.153 bits/pixel
Аудио: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 165 kbps
Размер: 1.03 Gb

I Like It Like That

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Darnell Martin’s «I Like It Like That» is centered on one of those New York City blocks where life seems to be lived mostly in the street, everybody minds everybody else’s business, and reality exists somewhere between a soap opera and a sitcom. It’s like «Do the Right Thing» crossed with «Roseanne.» The movie’s heroine, Lisette (Lauren Velez), has been married for 10 years to Chino (Jon Seda), who has a roving eye and is being pursued by the lustful Magdalena (Lisa Vidal). When Chino steals a stereo and is put in jail, Lisette is determined to raise the money for bail. So she goes to a fly-by-night modeling agency, where she stumbles into a real job, working with Stephen (Griffin Dunne), a WASP producer specializing in Latino music.

Stephen thinks he only needs a fake «date» to convince a couple of hot Puerto Rican singers that he’s the real thing. But Lisette, who understands the music and the culture, soon muscles into a better job, as his assistant. And when the neighborhood guys tell Chino that his wife is cheating with her new boss, Chino (now out on bail) retaliates with Magdalena.

This is not exactly a riveting plot, but what makes the film interesting is the way Martin sees the details. Instead of going for obvious contrasts between the two men in Lisette’s life, she sees the similarities: In one way or another, they both always have their eye on the clock. Neither one believes Lisette is as smart and capable as she obviously is. And both make their decisions with their libidos, not their intelligence.

Lisette has another brother in her life, the transvestite Alexis (Jesse Borrego), who lives downstairs, runs a store specializing in lucky candles, and has an unhappy relationship with their parents (their mother is played by Rita Moreno). Alexis lends her lots of good advice, but the character seems more like a subplot than a convincing part of the story.

Martin, a first-time director who was previously an assistant director for Spike Lee, is good at creating a sense of life and excitement in the neighborhood, where even minor street people are sharply drawn. Inside Lisette’s apartment, she shows a state of nonstop interruption, as the couple’s three untamed kids cause constant havoc and Lisette locks herself in the bathroom for a moment’s solitude. (One of her neighbors is that old movie standby, the outraged woman pounding on the ceiling with a broom handle.) It’s clear, though, that Martin is far less interested in Lisette’s role as a mother than in her prospects as a record producer, and the scenes between mother and children leave us with unanswered doubts about the quality of her parenting. The kids are there mostly for atmosphere, and Lisette doesn’t seem to have convincing relationships with them.

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I Like It Like That is a 1994 American comedy-drama film about the trials and tribulations of a young Puerto Rican man and a half Jamaican Puerto Rican American woman living in a poverty-stricken New York City neighborhood in the South Bronx. The film stars Lauren Velez, Jon Seda, Lisa Vidal, Griffin Dunne, Jesse Borrego and Rita Moreno, and was written and directed by Darnell Martin who, in her filmmaking debut, became the first African-American female filmmaker to take helm of a film produced by a major film studio.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. [1]

Lisette Linares (Lauren Velez) is a young mother of three children and married to Chino (Jon Seda), a bicycle messenger. Although he is always reliable as the breadwinner of the family, Chino is having an affair with their lustful neighbor, Magdalena (Lisa Vidal). One summer evening, as a blackout sweeps the neighborhood, Chino gets arrested for looting.

While Chino is taking the kids out for ice cream, his extremely rebellious son, Li’l Chino, asks if he could buy ice cream, but Chino tells him that he needs to work in order to buy things. His son then shows him money so Chino allows him to buy the ice cream; when Minnie, his younger daughter, notices that he is wearing new sneakers and pants, Chino realizes that his son has become a drug dealer. Chino furiously lashes out at his son, pushing him towards a mural with a picture of his uncle (Chino’s brother) on it, who was a police officer killed by a drug dealer. He whips his son in front of the whole block while his son’s friends laugh at him. Alexis notices the commotion and tries to stop him.

Alexis then points out that his son is just a little boy and pulls him away, but Li’l Chino runs away. The kids are still laughing and continue to insult Lil’ Chino as weak. An infuriated Chino then beats a kid from the crowd and whips him. The drug dealer attempts to draw a gun, but Chino manages to disarm him, while fellow neighbors help Chino whip the boy. Li’l Chino is then found sitting in front of Alexis’ apartment door. He tells Lisette that he wants to stay with her but she rejects him, believing that he will still be disrespectful toward her. Chino then finds Li’l Chino and takes him home. Back at the apartment, Chino and his friend Angel put Richie to bed. When Angel reveals that he’s the baby’s actual father, Chino is angered that Magdalena has played him the whole time. Alexis and Lisette have a discussion about the kids, where Alexis points out that Lisette is just like their own estranged mother. She denies this and Alexis changes and leaves to visit their mother.

When Alexis arrives over there, her mother opens the door and reacts in disgust by Alexis’ appearance. Alexis tries her hardest to make amends with her mother; when her father comes out of his room to check on the noise, he reacts with an aggressive look on his face. Back at Alexis’ apartment, Lisette hears the door open and notices that Alexis has returned. When Lisette comes to check on Alexis, she notices her face is injured and asks what happened, but Alexis tells her that she was right about their mother still being unsupportive of Alexis’ transgender status.

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 88% based on 67 reviews. [2]

Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and said of the film: «I Like It Like That looks more unconventional than it is, but Martin puts a spin on the material with lots of human color and high energy.» [3]

I Like It Like That

1994, Drama, 1h 45m

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For Lisette, everyday has become independence day.

Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has designs on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette gets a good job uptown. Can this marriage be saved?

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Life is loud, messy, and not at all like the movies. That is unless the movie in question is ‘I Like It Like That’. Anyone who has ever hustled to make something of themselves while continually being faced with unforeseen obstacles will feel represented in Lisette, the film’s intrepid hustler protagonist (played to perfection—like every other performer in this—by Lauren Vélez).

In many ways ahead of it’s time, Darnell Martin’s film finds its characters enmeshed in a vivid concrete jungle full of strikingly authentic details that each convey the tempestuous nature of its characters’ desires. Refreshingly, it’s a film that treats every one of these characters as well-meaning but deeply flawed. No one escapes their very real, often very serious…

This was showing in the cinema recently, but unfortunately I was feeling under the weather and couldn’t go (when you feel sick, stay home, people!). However, I Like It Like That was streaming on Amazon, so I still didn’t miss it. I liked Darnell Martin’s Cadillac Records, so I was eager to see this.

This film captures the chaotic nature of life and families. The lead, Lisette (Luna Lauren Velez) gave a powerhouse performance. Lisette’s sister Alexis (Jesse Borrego) was transgender. While seemingly progressive for a mid-nineties movie, please be advised that at one point, Lisette shockingly says «all the silicone in the world ain’t gonna make you a mother.” I really hate transphobia. However, Lisette was otherwise supportive of…

With the release of In the Heights (seeing it tomorrow!), I thought it’d be nice to revisit this rare film centering on Nuyorican characters in the barrio from a woman’s perspective.

Lisette played by the wonderful Lauren Velez feels stuck being a wife/mother in a small apartment in the Bronx. Jon Seda (lookin’ fine af) plays her husband Chino. After stealing a stereo during a black out, Chino goes to jail. Lisette needs bail money. She asks her trans sister Alexis. See quote above for answer.

Chino’s incarnation gives Lisette the opportunity to make it on her own. She…

Despite its ungainly title, Darnell Martin’s debut is a lovely, well-rounded comedy-drama. Lauren Velez is superb as Lisette Linares, who bullshits her way into a music-promotion job in order to spring her hapless husband Chino (Jon Seda) from jail. Lisette also has to raise her three children, one of whom — a little boy who thinks he has to bring home the bacon — stumbles innocently into drug dealing; she contends with a neighborhood siren (Lisa Vidal) who insists Chino is the father of her baby; and she commiserates with her brother Alexis (Jesse Borrego), a transsexual saving up for the operation, shunned by their parents.

The movie is loud and clamorous but not in the empty-confrontational style of, say,…

And speaking of the first few minutes, the opening sequence is wholly unique, a vibrant dash through a Bronx block and up into the…

A lively look at the life of a woman with a questionable husband and family to support in a neighborhood in the Bronx of the 90s written and directed by Darnell Martin, a woman of color with several other notable films and tv shows under her belt.

Lauren Vélez as the lead, Lisette, is a revelation. The characters, and her character in particular, were all so well written, so clearly fleshed out and vividly real as well. It’s a drama happening to believable and flawed characters who have senses of humor, which is a sweet spot for me.

The dynamic camera work takes you on a wild ride in the more exciting or hectic moments, and becomes contemplatively slow and…

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I hate my life. I hate it.

A lot of what I like about In the Heights was apparently done even better a decade earlier. This film presents an engaging slice-of-life story with the Bronx serving as setting and symbol. The acting is very good and the characters really come to life. It works as a strong feminist statement that is very empowering. It has quite a bit of diversity too—I wasn’t expecting such a sympathetic portrayal of the trans experience, especially as it’s relegated to a side story, but it ends up adding a surprising amount of depth to the overall account. The only downside is that I feel the childhood experience isn’t so well represented, especially in contrast to something like Crooklyn by Spike Lee. Watching the two films in tandem should prove to be very fulfilling.

a movie that’s so full of life you can’t help but fall for it flaws and all. it’s rough around the edges in the best way, such a colorful portrait of a family but specifically a woman just trying to find her way one day at a time. this one made my afternoon.

A great NYC movie and great entry in the “don’t have kids” canon

I really wish Alexis’ storyline got wrapped up a little nicer but I gotta forgive it a little bit because it’s from 25 years ago, and while that doesnt make her storyline sting any less I can really appreciate what they were trying to do.

Overally I really love the feel of this movie, and I really enjoy most of the script and I think the cinematography and editing are really good! And the music! Really great music choices.

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