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Vendedora de rosas, La (1998)

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User Rating: 7.8/10 (254 votes)

Overview

Director:
Víctor Gaviria
Writers:
Víctor Gaviria (writer)
Carlos Henao (writer)
Release Date:
25 August 1998 (Colombia) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots... more | add synopsis
Awards:
14 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
A window into the lives of Colombia's street girls. more

Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Rose Seller
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Runtime:
USA:116 min | Argentina:118 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Country:
Colombia
Language:
Spanish
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
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Trivia:
Of the cast of 17, nine have died violent deaths including the boy who played Monica's cheating boyfriend. more
Quotes:
Chinga: What shoes for is there is no home? more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
A window into the lives of Colombia's street girls., 17 October 2002
Author: oscar jubis (cjub704@msn.com) from miami, FL

La Vendedora de Rosas is a companion piece to Victor Gaviria's 1990 Rodrigo D:no futuro, about the lives of street boys from Medellin,Colombia. Vendedora focuses on girls equally affected by poverty, ignorance, abuse and neglect. It earns a place next to Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay and Hector Babenco's Pixote, excellent urban youth films in the tradition of Bunuel's Los Olvidados. Vendedora does not shy away from depicting the effects of drugs, violence, and family dysfunction while allowing for brief moments of tenderness and solidarity, even joy. Gaviria has enlisted street kids in enacting events from their daily lives, during 48 hours preceding Christmas. The film refuses to cheapen their plight with plot contrivances or stylistic flourishes. The spanish spoken is specific to the youth of Medellin, a welcome challenge to most native speakers. The fate of the characters evolves naturally from earlier scenes, without being predictable. I recommend La Vendedora de Rosas to anybody who considers film a window to the world of folks we wouldn't otherwise be able to access and an opportunity to understand it.

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