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Loving Pablo

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6.3/10 • 1K

2017-10-122h 3m

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A gangster. A princess. The true story of a most unlikely love affair.

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

Directors
Fernando León de Aranoa
Writters
Fernando León de Aranoa, Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist

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  1. Javier Bardem

    Javier Bardem

    Pablo Escobar

  2. Penélope Cruz

    Penélope Cruz

    Virginia Vallejo

  3. Peter Sarsgaard

    Peter Sarsgaard

    Shepard

  4. Julieth Restrepo

    Julieth Restrepo

    Maria Victoria Henao

  5. Óscar Jaenada

    Óscar Jaenada

    Santoro

  6. David Valencia

    David Valencia

    Santos

  7. Mark Basnight

    Mark Basnight

    Family Man

  8. Joavany Alvarez

    Joavany Alvarez

    Ignacio Velarde

  9. Matthew Moreno

    Matthew Moreno

    Pablito

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Aug 29, 2022

1/10

A caption at the beginning of Loving Pablo informs us that “This film is inspired by real events. Some of the characters, names, and events have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes." What they don't tell us is that even the protagonists’ nationalities and languages have been changed. Colombians Pablo Escobar and Virginia Vallejo are played by Spanish actors speaking English – or, at the very least, trying to; Javier Bardem's English is atrocious and Penelope Cruz's is abominable, and their Colombian accents are just as bad, if not worse. To confuse things further, the characters occasionally say some random words or phrases in Spanish. Now, I don't think it's asking too much of the audience to pretend that the characters are speaking Spanish among themselves even as the actors deliver their lines in English; after all Hemingway did something similar in For Whom the Bell Tolls. But if the characters are supposed to be speaking in their native language, shouldn’t they sound like native speakers? Also, the dialogue should be consistent; i.e., all English all the time – because otherwise, what language are they supposed to be speaking when they say something in Spanish? This is a Spanish film, about Spanish-speaking characters, written, produced and directed by Spaniards; why they felt the need to tell their story in any other language than that of Cervantes, I haven’t the foggiest. Except, of course, for the obvious reason of appealing to the Anglo-Saxon market, but in this case why go to the trouble of getting Spanish – especially big names like Bardem and Cruz – and Colombians actors, only to force them to recite most of their dialogue in English? If nothing else, they could have at least had the decency not to have Cruz narrate the movie.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Budget
$4,667,008.00
Revenue
$17,535,962.00
Keywords
journalistbased on novel or bookcocainebiographybased on true storymedellín, colombiadrug carteldrug lord1980s