Review of Our Lady of the Assassins (2000) by Tyler B — 22 Sep 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.