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The Rose Seller

1998 · 115 min

A raw, immersive plunge into street survival, blending documentary-like immediacy with heartbreaking tenderness and unflinching despair.

Directed by
Víctor Gaviria
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Lady Tabares, Marta Correa, Mileider Gil
Overview
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.

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Directed by
Víctor Gaviria
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Lady Tabares, Marta Correa, Mileider Gil
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • survival
  • isolation
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour1
Realism9
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, crime
Directed by
Víctor Gaviria
Written by
Carlos Henao, Víctor Gaviria, Diana Ospina
Starring
Lady Tabares, Marta Correa, Mileider Gil, Diana Murillo, Liliana Giraldo, Yuli García, Giovanni Quiroz, Álex Bedoya
Cinematography
Rodrigo Lalinde
Runtime
115 min
Country
Colombia
Languages
Spanish

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