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OSORIO, Óscar. From Crime to Love. La Palabra [online]. 2015, n.26, pp.59-71. ISSN 0121-8530.

This essay offers an analysis of the film adaptation of the novel La Virgen de los Sicarios by Fernando Vallejo that Barbet Schroeder directs in the year 2000. It is shown how, through a subtle process of suppression, attenuation and/or highlighting of the fundamental elements to the novel, this adaptation results in a film in which we can see an ethical-aesthetic project different from the original text and sometimes in opposition to it, despite the fact that the diegetic contents are very similar. Because of this process, the film turns out to be less overwhelming than the novel.

Palabras clave : Literature and film; La Virgen de los Sicarios; Literature; film and violence; Fernando Vallejo; Film and contract killers; Sicario" novels.

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