Our Lady of the Assassins
- Original title
- La virgen de los sicarios
- Year
- 2000
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
- Colombia
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Fernando Vallejo. Novel: Fernando Vallejo
- Cast
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- Germán Jaramillo
- Anderson Ballesteros
- Juan David Restrepo
- Manuel Busquets
- César Gaviria
- Barbet Schroeder
- Wilmar Agudelo
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Colombia-France;
- Genre
- Drama. Romance | Crime. Social Drama. Gay & Lesbian
- Synopsis
- A Colombian author in his fifties returns to his hometown of Medellín after 30 years of absence but finds himself trapped in an atmosphere of violence and murder caused by drug cartel warfare.
- Awards
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2000: Venice Film Festival: The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal: Nominated for Golden Lion2000: Havana Film Festival: Best Work of a Non-Latin American Director on a Latin America Subject2002: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language2001: Satellite Awards: nominated to Motion Picture, International.
- Critics' reviews
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"It's sad, funny, shocking and completely unlike any movie in a dozen years."
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"Has its faults, but it's Barbet Schroeder's most relevant and interesting film in over a decade"
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"The intimate love story is overwhelmed by the carnage. It may be an accurate picture of life in Medellin, but it's not convincing"
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"[This] adaptation of Fernando Vallejo's 1994 novel has a naturalistic freedom and ease that is both refreshing and direct in the way it tells a deeply disturbing story."
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"Una oda vigorizante a la ciudad, un lugar de dolorosa belleza y pobreza, envuelto por un halo desconcertante de cultura antigua y nihilismo moderno"
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"A scathing, darkly funny political essay wrapped inside a tragic love story (or vice versa)"
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