A review of the movie 'The Long Game' which chronicles the story of the Del Rio Mustangs, Mexican-American high school golfers who endured racism to win the state title in 1957.
The Del Rio Mustangs made history and broke barriers when they won the state title in 1957. Julio Quintana gives their story a sleek, effective conviction.This review was written as part of KENS 5's SXSW coverage in 2023. It has been updated to reflect its release in April 2024.
” – a chronicle of the Mexican-American high school golfers who endured racism to win the state title in 1957 – that audiences will surely also ask when they read that logline: How do you make golf cinematic? The sport doesn’t have the luxury of being as breathless as basketball, after all, nor does it lend itself to high-stakes filmmaking as organically as a pitcher and slugger’s showdown. How do you reinvent the wheel when it hasn’t been invented in the first place, when the putting green is cinematically most associated with meeting places for CEOs and big shots? It’s a quandary. Quintana deserves credit, then, for understanding it isn’t necessarily up to him to solve it. True to the unabashed throwback feel of this movie – which goes into wide release this week, more than a year after premiering at the South By Southwest Film Festival – the point of the occasional scenes of golf competition sprinkled throughout “The Long Game” isn’t so much the power of any one drive, but the face of the golfer swinging away, his eyes squinting into the distance towards a place only he can se
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