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Our Lady of the Assassins

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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.

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

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 10/28/2001
3.5/4
The film's title is appropriate. A desperate Catholicism flavors the doomed city. Go to Full Review
Patrick Z. McGavin Chicago Tribune 10/25/2001
A film of clarity, feeling and electric intensity. Go to Full Review
Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle 10/21/2001
3.5/5
Extraordinarily compelling and gripping. Go to Full Review
Jan Stuart The Advocate 04/05/2022
The tension of the inevitable pulls tautly at the lovers, like a mousetrap spring ready to snap at the slightest provocation. Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
3/5
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com 01/13/2005
1.5/5
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03/06/2019 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. See more 12/22/2012 My top favorite movie because it expresses itself eloquently what someone passing their prime and a transplant in foreign country goes through. See more 09/29/2012 No hay ficción mas grande que la realidad y esta película cumple con esta premisa. See more 09/23/2012 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. See more 03/07/2012 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. See more 02/19/2012 ¿quà (C) tan malo es si me estuve riendo media película? See more Read all reviews
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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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