1998 · drama
The Rose Seller
Directed by Víctor Gaviria1h 55m1998
Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.
Our read: The Rose Seller (1998) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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- bleak
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