Loving Pablo (2017)

Release date: 2018-03-09
Country: Spain|Bulgaria
Language: English|Spanish
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa
Production Co: Escobar Films, B2Y Productions
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Rating: 6.3/10
Length: 2h 3min

Storyline

In 1981, Virginia Vallejo is a famous Colombia's journalist and TV news anchorwoman who is invited to a VIPs party in the ranch of Pablo Escobar, a low-born man who gained money and power with drug trafficking together his friends, turning them in the new generation of rich men of the country. Seduced by his charisma, Virginia starts a passionate love affair with Escobar despite he's a family man married with María Victoria. Along the 80's years, Escobar becomes famous in his try to better the life of the low-born people of Medellín and raising a politician carrier in the Colombia's congress, but Virginia starts to understand Escobar's real power controlling an empire of crime in Colombia and spreading his drug by all USA. It causes that the DEA's agent Shepard interests by his business and by Virginia, contacting her looking for a way to stop him. With the President Belisario Betancur allying with USA to stop Escobar and extradite him to judge outside Colombia, this last one starts a...

Plot Keywords

1980s, year 1982, year 1984, year 1989, year 1991, year 1992, year 1993, based on book, based on true story, year 1981, based on real person, colombia, drug cartel, drugs, 1990s, journalist, father son relationship, radio, airport, prison

Short Review

The film spends much too much time going over the same rise-and-fall material that has been a staple of many portrayals of Escobar himself and of most gangster films going back to the 1930's.