Loving Pablo

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Loving Pablo
File:Loving Pablo.jpg
Film poster
Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa
Produced by
  • Dean Nichols
  • Javier Bardem
  • Miguel Menendez de Zubillaga
  • Kalina Kottas
  • Michael Zimbalist
Screenplay by
Based on Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar
by Virginia Vallejo[1]
Starring
Music by Federico Jusid
Cinematography Alex Catalan
Edited by Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Release dates
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  • 6 September 2017 (2017-09-06) (Venice)
  • 9 March 2018 (2018-03-09) (Spain)
Running time
 125 minutes
Country Spain
Language English
Budget €14.6 million[2]
Box office $17.5 million[3]

Loving Pablo, internationally known as Escobar, is a 2017 English-language Spanish biographical crime drama film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, based on Virginia Vallejo's memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar.[4][5] It was screened out of competition in the 74th Venice International Film Festival and in the Special Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[6]

Plot

Between 1983 and 1987, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar had a romantic relationship with the journalist and the television presenter, Virginia Vallejo.

Cast

Reception

Box office

Loving Pablo grossed $22,017 in the United States and Canada, and $17,5 million in other territories,[3] plus $60,312 with home video sales.[7]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 31% based on 48 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 4.82/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Loving Pablo bungles its seemingly cinematic real-life story -- and a pair of talented stars -- in producing a lurid biopic that adds nothing to the Escobar subgenre."[8] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9]

References

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External links

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