Our Lady of the Assassins

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Our Lady of the Assassins

R

Released Sep 7, 2001

1h 41m

Drama

LGBTQ+

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The writer Fernando Vallejo returns to Medellin, the city of his childhood, after an absence of over thirty years. Fernando meets Alexis, 16 years old, in a boys' brothel. Alexis comes from the slums. He has been drawn into a world of killing. Love begins to blossom between Fernando and Alexis. But their love has no future ... it is condemned before the fact by the harsh reality around them.

Critics Consensus

Director Barbet Schroeder presents a bleak, darkly humorous drama about hopeless love in Medellin, Colombia.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The film's title is appropriate. A desperate Catholicism flavors the doomed city.

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 28, 2001

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Patrick Z. McGavin

Chicago Tribune

A film of clarity, feeling and electric intensity.

Oct 25, 2001

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Extraordinarily compelling and gripping.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 21, 2001

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Jan Stuart

The Advocate

The tension of the inevitable pulls tautly at the lovers, like a mousetrap spring ready to snap at the slightest provocation.

Apr 5, 2022

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Film Threat

Rated: 3/5

Dec 6, 2005

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

Rated: 1.5/5

Jan 13, 2005

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Audience Member

Literally the worst movie I have ever seen. I made an account here just to make this know to any poor soul considering watching this movie. There is no tension in the plot. The characters don't change. They just walk around saying and doing the same things. Simultaneously one of the most violent and by far the most boring movie I have ever seen.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

My top favorite movie because it expresses itself eloquently what someone passing their prime and a transplant in foreign country goes through.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Audience Member

No hay ficciÃ³n mas grande que la realidad y esta pelÃcula cumple con esta premisa.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Audience Member

A powerfully acted sometimes complex, and sometimes offensive film. La virgen de los sicarios is a highly controversial film that is never short on be direct in the most delicated themes on the modern society, but i felt it quiet pretentious mostly because the director Barbet Schroeder is not colombian and he take many freedoms on show the problems on Medellín, and Fernando Vallejo's obvious resentments with Colombia, and while is placed on one of the worst decades of the country there is no excuse to be insulting while he show his believings. Briefly this film is a nihilistic piece of amateur filmmaking, that doesn't want to like to everyone and draws attention with controversial themes and total nonconformity.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Audience Member

Interesting Spanish, gay flick that focuses in on the difficulties within Colombia. The poetic protagonist writer has a lot of great morals & sayings that seemed to be the best part of the film to take away with you.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Audience Member

Â¿quÃ (C) tan malo es si me estuve riendo media pelÃcula?

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Barbet Schroeder

Director

Germán Jaramillo

Fernando

Anderson Ballesteros

Alexis

Juan David Restrepo

Wilmar

Manuel Busquets

Alfonso

Fernando Vallejo

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Synopsis

The writer Fernando Vallejo returns to Medellin, the city of his childhood, after an absence of over thirty years. Fernando meets Alexis, 16 years old, in a boys' brothel. Alexis comes from the slums. He has been drawn into a world of killing. Love begins to blossom between Fernando and Alexis. But their love has no future ... it is condemned before the fact by the harsh reality around them.

Director: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: Margaret Ménégoz, Jaime Osorio Gómez, Barbet Schroeder
Screenwriter: Fernando Vallejo
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Tornasol Films S.A.
Rating: R (Language|Drug Content|Sexuality|Strong Violence)
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 7, 2001, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 41m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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