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.
Plot
Between 1981 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,
plus $60,312 with home video sales.
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."
On
Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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