Pablo Calogero

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origins and by a founding trip to Africa. To portray this major painter of the 20th century, who died in 1988 at only 27 years old, is also to evoke the place of black American artists in the conservative and racist America of the Reagan years.

ミュージシャンとしての成功を夢見てキューバからNYへやてきたカスティーヨ兄弟。彼らが組んだバンド、マンボ・キングスは大きな成功を収めていった。妻子をもうけ、私生活も充実する彼らだが、かつての恋人の面影に苦しんでいた。ラテン・サウンドに乗せて綴られる青春ドラマ作。