Among Escobar’s killers and underlings, Nick stands out like a sore thumb soon, the film is showing us just how Nick got there and ominously suggesting where he’s going.Īlso Read: 'Sicario' Cannes Review: Brutal Benicio del Toro Thriller Takes No Prisonersīased loosely on reality, “Escobar: Paradise Lost” shows us how Nick first came to Colombia from Canada for the surfing but then stayed after he fell in love with a local woman, Maria (Claudia Traisac) she’s sweet, kind-hearted, beautiful and the niece of Pablo Escobar. After that moment for God and family, Escobar assembles a group of helpers, including Nick, played by Josh Hutcherson ( “The Hunger Games”).
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We first see Escobar calling his mom on a satellite phone so they can pray together the night before he’s slated to hand himself over to authorities. It’s a very different approach, and one aided in no small part by Benicio Del Toro‘s work as Pablo Escobar, the Colombian cocaine kingpin. But in “Escobar: Paradise Lost,” director Andrea Di Stefano (making his big-screen directing debut after years of acting in his native Italy and abroad) shuns the approach of films like Steven Soderbergh‘s “Traffic” and books like Don Winslow’s “The Power of the Dog” to tell a story where the drug war isn’t international but interpersonal, where the action plays out across patios and around dinner tables, not over borders or in the corridors of power.Īlso Read: Cannes: Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins Drama 'A Perfect Day' Goes to IFC Films
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Most drug-war tales play in major keys, the action unfolding between nations and institutions, pitting cartel leadership against police and politicians, lawbreakers against lawmakers.