![]() ![]() Steven Spielberg’s brand-new film of the musical West Side Story is just the latest link in a long chain of retellings of the doomed young romance stretching back to Shakespeare and beyond, but somehow always finding fresh significance to each era through which it has passed.īeing released in the wake of the renewed national debate about Latinx immigrants and DREAMers, how will this relatively tame (by today’s standards) romantic musical drama fare in the digital age? Will it continue to thrive in our collective consciousness for another 64 years?Īnd will the story hold up? Ansel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria in the Steven Spielberg film of West Side Story. The story remains as fresh as a first kiss and as bright as newly spilled blood.
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