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Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez

2015 · 90 min

A warm, thoughtful portrait that moves between nostalgia and politics, letting voices and archive images build a writer's world.

Directed by
Justin Webster
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Jon Lee Anderson, Xavi Ayén
Overview
How did a boy from a humble town on the Caribbean coast become a famous writer who won the hearts of millions of people, from the poorest to the most powerful ones? The answer to this question is the amazing story of Gabriel “Gabo” García Márquez (1927-2014), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and probably the best writer in Spanish since Miguel de Cervantes.

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Directed by
Justin Webster
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Jon Lee Anderson, Xavi Ayén
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • memory
  • politics
  • identity
  • class
Places
  • small town
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Justin Webster
Written by
Kate Horne, Justin Webster
Starring
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Jon Lee Anderson, Xavi Ayén, Carmen Balcells, Bill Clinton
Runtime
90 min
Country
Colombia, France, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages
Spanish

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