Dramatizes the life and work of the Grammy award-winning Texas Latina singer who had begun to popularize Tejano music when she was shot and killed.Gregory Nava (Why Do Fools Fall In Love?) directs this more-or-less official film biography of the late Mexican-American singer, Selena Quintanilla Perez (the film is coproduced by her father), which emphasizes sentimentality over conflict and plays down the star’s horrific death at the hands of a deranged fan. Jennifer Lopez is quite good as Selena, whose roots we come to know through the story of her father (Edward James Olmos), a Corpus Christi singer who was rejected by white audiences. The script focuses primarily on Selena’s inspiring rise, and it tries to muster some sense of urgent conflict over not-particularly-contentious issues (such as her relationship with a guitarist). But Olmos does a fine job portraying the elder Perez as a possessive sort, and the music and general buoyancy of Lopez’s performance are infectious. The unavoidable subject of Selena’s killer–a woman who happened to be the president of her fan club–is considerably and oddly downplayed. –Tom Keogh
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