La Vendedora De Rosas
by Víctor Gaviria
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Actor: Diana Murillo, Lady Tabares, Liliana Giraldo, Marta Correa, Mileider GilDirector: Víctor Gaviria
Brand: Ventura Distribution
Cinematographer: Erwin Goggel
Producer: Erwin Goggel
Writer: Víctor Gaviria
Producer: Pierre Cottrell
Producer: Sergio Navarro
Producer: Silvia Vargas
Writer: Carlos Henao
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Published)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Venevision
DVD Reviews of La Vendedora De Rosas
DVD Review: Pointless Exercise
Summary: 2 Stars
Classic Colombian film, and as such, filled with an inherent arrogance. The film which was nothing but gold to critics is one of the most pointless film proposals I've ever seen.
This 1998 film starts off with the now boring Pulp Fiction Original idea of setting up several stories within the same context and the same characters, however, being this a film made in my country, Colombia, the whole story is pointless beyond shoving down the audience throat the fact that we live in a vicious place.
What's the conclusion of the film, violence, the whole film can be summed up with that single word. The only attempt to explore a characters mind is to the main character, with one of the most repeated ideas ever, the mother ghost, we are remembered over, and over, and over that she misses her mother. We get it OK, her mother died, she misses her, that's why she is a mess, let's move on. The pther characters are basically just cartoons of a very serious issue, the product of ignored poverty.
A bunch of "puff the magic dragon" kids is not art, it's not anything. The film only manages to create a scary context, but it remains as such, the film is all context, no story here, the film does not teach me anything, imagine the film as Natural Born Killers, only with a Mickey and Mallory that never philosophise, or learn anything, or do anything but get high and bully other people, with almost every line being loaded with profanity.
Colombian filmakers have made this "works of arts" for decades now, I'm sick of it. I'm a Colombian filmaker myself, and it burns me to see that the only stories done here are about poor drug adicts, and hookers, and hit men. There's more to this country than that, and even if you want to do a story about poor people, you can give it meaning, an important message, something, I can see that the situation is bad by just looking up at the statistics, which is what this film basically does, show the statistics only with actors.
Rodrigo D:No Futuro had the same problems, it's no trick to show poor people cursing and doing bad stuff. I would like to propose examples of movies that have used similar characters and story lines and really accomplished something. The most clear example is Amores Perros(the Mexican Pulp Fiction), the film is not only technically superior, but also develops it's characters with much more maturity, and the film says something at the end(of every storyline).
Gangs of New York is(beleive it or not) similar, a look at the most miserable places of a city, and yet look at it, the film has a huge point to it. Taxi Driver, another film that explores urban decadence, and boy does it make a strong statement.
Point is La Vendedora de Rosas only works as a gratuitous look at violence and urban decadence, a film that constructs an world with empty people inside, and if that was the point of the film, the shame on the makers, to say poor people are empty. Bottom line, this film only works for the sick curiosity of those who don't know squad about my country.
A much more objective and accurate view was ironically made by a US writer director, the guy who made Maria Full of Grace, that film really does capture the essence of my country, not Vendedora de Rosas. Now, some might call me elitist, and argue that since I'm Colombian but not poor, I can't give my view, well as I said before, I'm a filmaker, and have studied the behaviour of poor people here, and it's nowhere near the mental masturbation of Victor Gaviria(maker of Vendedora...).
For all of those who though that thos film was a very realistic approach, it's a blatant cartoon that is based on it's shock factor from the vicious people shown in the film, in order to impress simple minded audiences.
A must-miss, trust me.
Description of La Vendedora De Rosas
A band of street urchins have great hopes as Christmas eve is getting close. Will they spend it among pals? Or with their suitors? Will they have enough dough to scare up their own party? Will they be wearing new clothes that night? All these expectancies, which won't materialize in the end, are to bring about a somewhat nefarious ending: loneliness, despondency, drugs and death. Hidden face of a cruel, intense latinamerican city. En la noche de navidad, Mónica vende rosas para ganarse la vida y para comprarse el sueño de una fiesta con pólvora, estrenar ropa y salir con su novio... pero la vida le depara una nueva cita con la soledad, la pobreza y la muerte. Mónica es la otra cara de Medellín, una ciudad como cualquier otra en donde los niños de la calle que no tienen lugar en este mundo viven el tiempo inútil de su inexistencia.Bestsellers in DVD
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