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Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Novelist Fernando (stage actor Jaramillo) comes home to Medellín 'to die' after spending most of his life abroad. He's introduced to Alexis (Ballesteros) at a gay soirée and becomes the boy's sugar daddy - until Alexis is killed in one of the city's countless, everyday street hits, whereupon Fernando replaces him with the assassin (Restrepo). Vallejo's adaptation of his own (autobiographical?) novel provides Schroeder with a way of tackling life and, more particularly, death under the drug cartels. The main body of the film has Fernando revisiting sites he remembers from childhood and commenting on their decline and decay. Shot on high-definition video to minimise the crew's time in dangerous locations, the film certainly underlines how cheap life has become in Medellín. But by focusing on such an acquiescent protagonist and failing to question the sleazy gay soap-opera mechanics of the plot, the film looks more like part of the problem than part of the solution.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: Jaime Osorio Gomez, Margaret Ménégoz
Cast: German Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo, Manuel Busquets full cast
Duration: 101 mins
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