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Film · 2003
The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo
La desazón suprema: Retrato incesante de Fernando VallejoColombian filmmaker Luis Ospina delivers an intimate and provocative documentary portrait of iconoclastic author Fernando Vallejo at his home in Mexico City. Breaking with conventional biographical narratives, the film examines Vallejo's acerbic critiques of religion, political hypocrisy, and violence, alongside his passions for literature, classical music, biology, and cinema.
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A meeting of titans. Luis Ospina portrays writer Fernando Vallejo in Mexico, capturing his irony, his fury toward Colombia, and his devastating lucidity. More than a biography, it is a verbal duel full of black humor and cultural critique.
From La Rueda Suelta The fascinating, singular, and controversial figure of writer Fernando Vallejo is the core of this intimate and personal 2003 documentary directed by Luis Ospina. Drawing on texts from several of his writings and dividing into chapters the lush anecdotes of his personal life and career, the Cali director crafts a generous portrait of the writer that is simultaneously as confrontational as his prose.
From Retina Latina Sincerity, a scarce commodity especially in countries like ours, is found in writers like Colombia's Fernando Vallejo, who says what he thinks in a stark and brutal manner. His words are like gunshots without a silencer, and as proof we have a 2003 documentary about him. Are you ready for so much brutal honesty?
Jaime Cabrera Junco on Lee por Gusto
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