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12 August 2005 (Colombia)
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Medellín, 1989. Antonio brings Rosario to the hospital; she's shot, bleeding badly. Flashbacks, mixed...
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Superb drama and an astonishing actress
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Flora Martínez | ... | Rosario Tijeras |
 | Unax Ugalde | ... | Antonio |
 | Manolo Cardona | ... | Emilio |
| Rodrigo Oviedo | ... | Jonhefe |
| Alonso Arias | ... | Ferney |
| Alejandra Borrero | ... | Doña Ruby |
| Alex Cox | ... | Donovan |
| Helios Fernández | ... | Viejo |
| Enrique Sarasola | ... | Juez |
| María Teresa Gómez | ... | Enfermera |
| Cristina Lilley | ... | Mamá de Emilio (as Kristina Lilley) |
| Sebastián Ospina | ... | Papá de Emilio |
| Carlos Andrés Cadavid | ... | Pato |
| Catalina Aristizábal | ... | Greta |
| Fabio Restrepo | ... | Taxista (as Fabio Iván Restrepo) |
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Rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, violence, drug use and language.
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126 min
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The film is dedicated to Helios Fernández.
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In MHO this is probably the best film shot in Colombia to date. This film excels primarily due to the electrifying performance of the Colombian actress Flora Martinez in the role of Rosario Tijeras, a young and dangerous girl that works as a hit-woman to the Medellin drug cartel in the late 1980's.
Not only does the beautiful and talented Ms. Martinez realistically portraits the tormented girl that always gives a kiss before shooting to death his victims, but the rest of the cast gives a highly convincing performance. I didn't blink seeing the picture and neither will you....
Spanish actor Unax Ugalde gives an excellent performance as Antonio, the only pure soul to come close to the star-crossed Rosario. Some failings in pronouncing the local 'paisa' accent of Medellin, IMHO, doesn't in any way diminish his convincing performance.
Colombian actor Manolo Cardona, acting as Rosario's boyfriend Emilio, did also a very powerful performance, although he doesn't reach his co-stars levels.
Equally convincing are the performances of Mexican actor Rodrigo Oviedo as the hit-man Johnefe, Rosario's brother, and of Colombian actor Alonso Arias as the dangerous Rosario's former boyfriend Ferney.
The Mexican director Emilio Maillé did a very good job in this, his first full length feature film. Congratulations! The Marcelo Figueras's adapted script from the original novel by Jorge Franco maintains all the elements of this tale which will become part of Latin America's mythology. In my opinion, the Figueras's script clears some blind spots of the book
Filmed on location in Medellin, including the old living quarters of the henchmen of the Medellin drug cartel, this Mexican-American-Colombian production never looses pace in a frantic and crude vertigo of sex, drugs, tragedy, and violence.
Don't miss it!