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Review: A Filipina singer with heart in 'Yellow Rose'

by AP Film Writer
| October 8, 2020 9:30 AM

“I'm illegal,” says Rosario “Rose” Garcia (Eva Noblezada), a Filipina living undocumented in Texas, in Diane Paragas' “Yellow Rose.” The way she says it is meant, as it is, to sound ridiculous. Here is a bright, headstrong young woman, dressed in jeans and a cowboy hat. She's about the furthest thing possible from a criminal. She's a picture of Americana.

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