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"Our Lady of the Assassins"
2000
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder's first film away from Hollywood in
13 years also ranks as one of his best. A writer returns home to Colombia,
with the intention of taking his own life, to find his hometown is a center
for cocaine production and gang warfare. He becomes involved intimately with
a teenaged gang member, but their relationship only brings the writer closer
to the tragic state of his homeland. Shot guerilla-style digital video, on
location in Colombia without permits, this film reaffirmed Schroeder's
directorial vitality. In Spanish with English subtitles. 101
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