My review for North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
In Rompan Todo, there are two central questions: what is Latin American rock and how does it differ from its North American counterpart? Produced by renowned videographers and composers Nicolás Entel, Picky Talarico, and Gustavo Santaolalla, the documentary is an ambitious undertaking and examines the genre across the region’s 33 countries. The documentary mostly succeeds in this endeavor, tracing the origins and the socio-political evolution of rock from the late 1950s into the early 2000s through interviews with icons who shaped the genre. However the documentary, like much broad Latin American research, glosses over subregions that are often under-examined, if not altogether ignored.