Our Lady of the Assassins
Our Lady of the Assassins

Our Lady of the Assassins
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Product NameOur Lady of the Assassins
ManufacturerParamount
Retail Price $14.95
UPC097363397939
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Release Date2000-01-01
FormatVHS Tape
Actor(s)Germán Jaramillo
Director(s)Barbet Schroeder
Num. of Items1
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4 Star Rating  "An intellectual approach to living in hell"2009-05-25
- Reviewed By User: A1TD0FUFZBA3DR
Very good movie! An interesting exploration about living in Medellin from the point of view of a scholar facing the sunset of his live willing to see for the last time the town where he's born and to discover it turned in hell on hearth since now it is in the hands of criminal bands connected with drugs selling. A tender gay love with a young menber of one of these bands becomes the guide to the new social environment of the town. Not at the same level of the movie "Plata quemada", but a rare opportunity to get a view on blade runners'lives on South America.
 
5 Star Rating  "THis film ages like a true MASTERPIECE"2008-12-24
- Reviewed By User: A3IKFH2C28I9MG
It is Christmas Eve 2008 as I write. Last night I looked again at this film depicting life in Medellin Columbia. The film was written before 9/11. When viewed today after 9/11 and the subsequent wars and the outright evil today dominating usa political, governmental, business and religious life - this film is a prophetic masterpiece about life in the usa and increasingly around the world. TO think that this is a gay movie is to totally misunderstand the movie and its intent. Yes, the film is shocking and distrurbing. USA life today has evolved to be the same as depicted in the film! Life has become cheap. Government has no respect for people. Usa leaders everywhere at every level are corrupt thieves. Religious leaders have become useless. Pedophilia is allowed to persist within the Catholic priesthood unabated. GLBT people are victims of discrimination. Drug investation is everywhere. Pro-Life christians elect war promoters/defenders. The list goes on and on. Somehow this the film script/sscreenply contains great wit. insight, and WISDOM. One can only hope and pray that somehow goodness will one day again reign over this world. On this Christmas Eve, every living soul should feel ashamed about the world in which we live and take some action to make this world a better place. This movie depicts the horror of our world today and it is not pleasant having reality hit you in the face. The film shows what is with great clarity. But it is the truth - whether you like it or not. If you have not yet seen this film, by all means do so. If you have seen it previously, see it again. In either case, buckle your seatbelt. THis film is a great ride, but watch out for reality repeatedly slapping you in the face.
 
5 Star Rating  "BARBET SCHROEDER, OPUS 13"2008-02-13
- Reviewed By wdanthemanw
***** 2000. Directed by Barbet Schroeder, this film is an adaptation of Fernando Vallejo's Our Lady of the Assassins. A disenchanted gay writer comes back to his hometown Medellin, Colombia. In the company of his new companion, a young killer, he will discover a city where crime reigns. Nothing has changed here in 30 years. Filmed in HDTV, OUR LADY OF THE ASSASSINS however isn't a documentary. The director uses this new cinematographic process in a remarkable manner in order to work on the colors. The film is a symphony of yellow, red and blue, the colors of the Colombian flag. As Barbet Schroeder grew up in Colombia from the ages of 7 to 11, he's also able to render perfectly the special mood of this awesome country. Masterpiece.
 
5 Star Rating  "Impressive, unpleasant, but definitely worthwhile."2006-10-02
- Reviewed By rocinantecs
I am not sure how much of this film is autobiographical and how much is fiction. I do know that Fernando Vallejo, the novelist who wrote the novel "Our Lady of the Assassins" as well as this film's screenplay, is a reknowned Colombian author who, like the Fernando in this film, spent much of his life in voluntary exhile. (In the real Fernando's case, the exhile was in Mexico and Italy). In another series of novels Vallejo has written extensively about the difficulties of growing up gay in Colombia, so there is a possibility that in the novel and film versions of "Our Lady of the Assassins" we are getting glympses of his own life experience coming back to Medellin as a middle-aged man.

Both the film and the novel present a touching but in many ways distasteful romance between an affluent older man and an underaged hustler/hired killer from the Medellin underclass. Neither the film nor the novel pass judgment on the relationship, but both make the viewer/reader squirm. There is the obvious question of poor youth being exploited by an older man. Additionally, the older man is an unapologetic snob, a hedonistic social-darwinist whose contempt for the indigent around him reflects very poorly on the Colombian bourgeoisie. The younger man, beneath the angel face, is nihilistic and an apparently uncritical respository of crass international pop culture. The duo's comments about their lives and their meanderings through Medellin depict a very sick society--a portrait that is the thrust of Vallejo's novel.

Other commentors on this webpage suggest that they do not find the wanton violence in this film credible. Unfortunately, the press reports on life in Bogota and Medellin (particularly the latter, as one of the capitals of the cocaine cartels) bear out Vallejo's portrait. So, too, do the stories of many affluent Colombians who have emigrated to Miami in order to escape violence. And sadly, the literature and films about slum children from other large Latin American cities--Pixote (Sao Paulo), Los Olvidados (Mexico City), Amores Perros (Mexico City)--touch on similar themes [See the recent Colombian novel "Satan", by Moreno, which is a portrait of Bogota gone to hell]. This is an unpleasant, painful portrait--and we are seeing the portrait through the eyes of people who are alternatively sympathetic and horrible. But the portrait is probably realistic, as are our guides.

The deliberate use of unsophisticated cameras in this film add to the feeling of cinema verite and enhance the film's impact. All in all, this is an impressive undertaking, and the film goes beyond the novel in engendering dispair over the well-being of Colombia.
 
5 Star Rating  "Our Lady of the Assassins"2006-09-21
- Reviewed By User: AA0I8AQZWJFQJ
If you enjoy independent films, you will certainly like this film. It is about life as a displaced youth of Columbia. Unlike the displaced youth of the U.S., they are on their own without any significant assistance. It is very sad, as this is an adaptation of the true story of Alexis. In the areas of the world where illegal drug producers force the disadvantaged youth into terrible life styles, there should be country mandated advocacy for the youth that are unwittingly manipulated.
 
4 Star Rating  "believe it or not, its real"
- Reviewed By Anonymous
i have read so many reviews of this movie saying "it's too fake, the violence is unconvincing."

i am a colombian who has experienced gang violence and crime. what people do not understand is that colombia is not compton, where the police come and record a crime. here are some facts

less than 3% of crimes in colombia are successfully prosecuted, a rate lower than that of the old west, a time and place taht was supposedly lawless

the murder rate in medellin (the city where the movie is set, where my family lives), including rich neighborhoods and slums is 465 per 100,000, compton, california (the birthplace of gang violence in the US and home of gangsta rap) was only 80.2 per 100,000 in 1987 (when things were supposedly much worse)

as far as the filmmaking itself, i cannot say it si a well made movie, my interest is solely in teh subject matter

the homosexuality adds a confusing dimension to the film that is not necessary when portraying violent crime in the most dangerous place in the western hemisphere

RENT, DO NOT BUY

and yes, the violence is real, contrary to what you may think living in the suburbs, medellin is the most murderous city in the world, 6 times as murderous as compton, california

 
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