Chapter 2
Nexus Factory
Orange Studio
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Escobar: Paradise Lost
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For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into the dangerous world of the family business.
- Original title
- Escobar: Paradise Lost
- Language
- EN
- Country
- FR,ES
- Budget
- $17,000,000
- Revenue
- $3,758,328
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Aug 30, 2022 · via TMDB
Benicio del Toro is a better Pablo Escobar than Javier Bardem, the same way Escobar: Paradise Lost is a better film about the drug lord than Loving Pablo – but the latter only marginally. Unlike Bardem, del Toro speaks Spanish throughout, except when addressing Nick Brady (Josh Hutcherson), which makes sense because Nick is Canadian. Moreover, most of the actors in Paradise Lost are Latino or Spanish, and their characters accordingly speak the language of Cervantes. The problem here is that the movie plays like a remake of the Last King of Scotland – and is just about as faithful to reality. Nick has gone surfing in Colombia, where he meets María (Claudia Traissac), and it's love at first sight. Little does Nick know that María is Escobar’s ‘almost-like-a-daughter-to-me’ niece. Yada yada yada the young, wide-eyed foreigner is seduced by the superficially affable and charismatic sociopath, only to discover sooner rather than later that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Now, del Toro can conjure affability, charisma, and sociopathy at the drop of hat, and he doesn't need to be in every scene to steal the movie; conversely, he couldn't save the film even if he did appear in every scene, because the story isn't about him, so Escobar doesn't so much inhabit the movie as he hovers over it, like a bird of prey. As for Nick and María, they are as make-believe as James McAvoy’s character in the Last King of Scotland. We don’t care what happens to them anymore than writer/director Andrea Di Stefano cares about what happens to Escobar, who literally and figuratively gets away with murder.
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Benicio del Toro
Pablo Escobar
Josh Hutcherson
Nick
Brady Corbet
Dylan
Claudia Traisac
Maria
Carlos Bardem
Drago
Ana Girardot
Anne
Tenoch Huerta Mejía
Roldano Brother
Laura Londoño
Maria Victoria
Frank Spano
Christo
Micke Moreno
Martin
Elmis Castillo
Cameraman
Aaron Zebede
Pepito Torres
Carlos Conti
Production Design
Marylin Fitoussi
Costume Design
Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen
Makeup Artist
Bernardo Kenny
Picture Car Coordinator
Andrea Di Stefano
Director
David Brenner
Editor
Maryline Monthieux
Editor
Yiniva Cardenas
Casting
Benicio del Toro
Executive Producer
Josh Hutcherson
Executive Producer
Adrian Politowski
Producer
Dimitri Rassam
Producer
Gilles Waterkeyn
Producer
Nadia Khamlichi
Producer
Max Richter
Original Music Composer
Alexandre Fleurant
Sound Editor
Andrea Di Stefano
Screenplay
The strange case of detective Jones
Se7en
The Silence of the Lambs
Double Indemnity
Fargo
The Big Sleep
Blue Velvet
Donnie Brasco
Dolls
True Romance
Lucky Number Slevin
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Scarface
Minority Report
Blow-Up
The 39 Steps
Ghost
2046
Dead Ringers
The Negotiator
Frenzy
Red Dragon
Arlington Road
Strange Days
The Sleeping Car Murders
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Fallen
Mission: Impossible III
King of New York
My True Story
Run Hide Fight
Swimming Pool
Next Door
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Red Corner
The Interpreter
Taken 3
Blood Work
2 Days in the Valley
Murder by Numbers
Be Afraid
Pyewacket
The Privileged
The Good German
Seven Years of Night
The Juror
The Omen
Runaway
The Nameless
Sliver
The Dentist
Jade
Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
Lost Joy
The Final Terror
Autopsy
L.A. Vice
D Company
Herzensschrei
The Ghosts
Kiss Me Deadly
Point Break
Basic Instinct
Kill 'em All 2
The Vigilante
One Night in Bangkok
Weekend in Taipei
River Wild
X
Shuffle
The Last Days of American Crime
A Perfect Getaway
The Island
King of Killers
Lady in Cement
When Strangers Appear
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Border Hunters
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Assassin Club
Point Blank
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Striking Distance
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