‘Chicano Love Is Forever’ Chicago Screening
When Efraín Gutiérrez began making films in San Antonio, he had no technical experience, only a conviction that Hollywood stereotypes demanded an answer from the Chicano community. He boasted of never shooting more than three takes of any given scene and endorsed one writer’s suggestion that he was “a Chicano Ed Wood with a political conscience.”
His first film, Please Don’t Bury Me Alive, earned $300,000 on the Spanish-language theater circuit, besting the exploitation pictures turned out by Mexican outfits and clearing the way for a genuinely regional independent cinema. Gutiérrez poured the proceeds into Chicano Love Is Forever (Amor Chicano Es Para Siempre), a hard-hitting drama about the pressures facing a young married couple struggling through college and low-wage work. (Gutiérrez also plays the husband.)
Presumed lost for almost twenty years until rediscovered by scholar Chon Noriega and restored by UCLA, Chicano Love is Forever is a vital landmark of bilingual social cinema. Preservation funded by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States.
Read more at the Northwest Chicago Film Society
Wednesday, June 12 at 8:00pm at the Patio Theater, 6008 W. Irving Park Rd.
via UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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