Synopsis
Our Lady of the Assassins (La virgen de los sicarios, 2000) is a Colombian-Spanish-French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Barbet Schroeder adapted Fernando Vallejo's autobiographical novel and shot the entire film on the actual streets of Medellín — not a studio version of the city, but the real thing, mid-crisis.
Fernando, an ageing writer played by Germán Jaramillo, comes home after years abroad and finds a Medellín he barely recognizes. He falls for Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros), a teenage hitman who carries out killings with the same matter-of-fact calm as everything else in his day. Their relationship is tender and precarious in equal measure, set against a city where violence is ambient and grief is private.
Schroeder's documentary-style approach keeps the film from becoming a moral lecture. It's a love story and a eulogy at once — for a person, for a city, for a way of life that the drug wars quietly destroyed. Watch Our Lady of the Assassins (2000) online on iFILM.
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