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Movie Review

"The Rose Seller"


Direction and Screenplay: Victor Gaviria
Production: Erwin Goggel
Duration: 110 minutes
Country: Colombia
Production year: 1998
Starring: Leidy Tabares (Monica), Marta Correa (Judy), Mileider Gil (Andrea), Diana Murillo ( chubby-cheeked), Liliana Giraldo (Claudia), Alex Bedoya (Milton), Giovanni Quiroz (El Zarco).

The city of Medellin, Colombia, served as the backdrop to represent the decadent and impoverished environment which develops the life of street children (ostracized). In a circle, without any sanitation, these infants are able to create subcultures, codes and methods survival to serve as a shield for the day-to-day presented to them, learning that life has another meaning and that is why they prefer to live in their own world that is built.

Monica is a girl with only 12 years stars in this production, lives with her friends in a room and at night sold roses in different places of the city. The Rose Seller is a surrealist film that shows the wishes and aspirations of these street children, the desire to return to their family, to meet again with his "mommy" as happens to the main character, emphasizing that all are suffering from the same hallucinations, debido al consumo y adicción que tienen por la “pega”.



En la noche de navidad, el sueño de Mónica, es el de una velada con ropa recién estrenada y una salida con su novio (El Zarco, un traficante de drogas), pero los planes cambian tornándose una situación inquietante, finalizando con la muerte para Mónica, situación que le permite realizar el sueño de reunirse con su "mamita" pero para vivir y acceder a cada detalle de lo que ocurre, se tendría que ver la película para adentrarse en la realidad de cada personaje y la calidad que tiene la película, la excelente dirección de Víctor Gaviria, para vivir o de algún So feel the conditions of street children, features that the writer of the film allows the viewer to enter, with urban environments where the film is developed and caliche accent of the actors, who are real, because you must do a large parentheses and mention that some of these characters, after completion of production and the fame they got past few years, have died in the same streets where they filmed this movie.



is a film that shows the harsh reality of life for all children in the world for any reason or any cause living in the streets under the shadow of exploitation sexual or labor, drug trafficking and consumption, real real, real characters who lived on the streets that are and were what the movie is shown of them, without any change in their styles.