Loving Pablo

2017

2h 3m

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6.3/10

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Crime

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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

Writers

Fernando León de Aranoa(writer by)

Virginia Vallejo(book by)

Jeff Zimbalist(writer by)

Stars

Javier Bardem

Penélope Cruz

Peter Sarsgaard

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Top cast

Pablo Escobar

Virginia Vallejo

Shepard

Maria Victoria Henao

Santoro

Santos

Family Man

Ignacio Velarde

Pablito

FBI Agent

Pelado

Careta

Gatillero

Hermosilla

Juan Sebastián Calero

Carlos Corral

Quique Mendoza

Abel Monje

Ariel Sierra

Salvador Martín

Julio Nava

Garza

Directors

Fernando León de Aranoa

Writers

Fernando León de Aranoa(writer by)

Virginia Vallejo(book by)

Jeff Zimbalist(writer by)

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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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