Our Lady of the Assassins
(La virgen de los sicarios) | ||
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| Starring | ||
| Directed by | Barbet Schroeder | |
| Produced by | Margaret Ménégoz Barbet Schroeder | |
| Adapted by | From book of same name | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Classics | |
| Released | Sept 2000 | |
| Runtime | 98 minutes | |
| language | Spanish | |
| IMDB Info | 0250809 on IMDb | |
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The writer F. Vallejo returns to Medellin after an absence of over 30 years. He meets 16-year-old Alexis. Alexis is the kind of killer who knocks people off on command. The two are immediately attracted to each other.
The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia, and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who murders all too easily. When Alexis himself is fatally gunned down, grief-stricken Fernando hunts for his young lover's killer in the Medellin slums but instead encounters Wilmar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Alexis.
A middle-aged man, perhaps having a mid-life crisis or suffering from writer's block, returns to the city of his birth, Medellin, Colombia, to occupy the vacant apartment he has inherited from his dead sister. He is appalled by the violence and the well-armed adolescent thugs who rule the streets, but quite attracted to teen-age male prostitutes, some of whom, amazingly, fulfill both roles.
Roaming the city, the writer discovers the old homosexual dream of true love with the fabled boy prostitute with a heart of gold -- and who is also an assassin. This unlikely scenario takes place not once, but twice, and predictably ends tragically.
The musical theme is the very appropriate classic, Senderito de Amor (Path of Love) which begins, with one love abandoned me, another forgot me; I roam the world in pain.
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