My Father, Pablo Escobar (2009)

Cautiously Recommended

Argentina/Columbia

Feature Documentary

Original Title: Pecados de mi padre

Director: Nicolas Entel

Cinematographers: Mariano Monti, Patricio Suarez

Composers: Didi Gutman, David Majzlin

Narrator: Laurence Fox

Featuring: Sebastián Marroquín, Rodrigo Lara, Carlos Galán, Juan Manuel Galán, Claudio Galán, Maria Isabel Santos

Entel builds a thoroughly compelling portrait of Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria – doting father, philanthropist, wannabe politician, drug dealer, murderer, terrorist – making the most of a wealth of archive material and candid interviews with his exiled son; less successful, however, is the horribly awkward and irredeemably contrived-feeling bringing together of said son and the sons of a pair of politicians that he had had assassinated. Iain.Stott