Loving Pablo

Loving Pablo (2017) is a crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, told through the affair between TV star Virginia Vallejo and the man who terrorized a whole country. Her memoir is the source the script was built from.

Colombia at the turn of the 1980s. Virginia is the most famous journalist on television, used to luxury and applause. Pablo Escobar climbs out of the Medellín slums toward cocaine billions, a seat in congress, and open war with the state. She falls for the power and the charm before she fully grasps that her lover is drowning cities in blood: car bombs, judges and police gunned down to order, terror with no brakes. Javier Bardem packed on weight to play the kingpin, and Penélope Cruz plays a woman who decides to walk away far too late.

Director Fernando León de Aranoa shapes it less as a cartel saga than as a study of how desire blinds you. Bardem and Cruz are a couple offscreen too, and that chemistry pays off. A bleak, hard look at the Medellín years. Stream Loving Pablo (2017) online on iFILM.