Of Love and Other Demons (2009)

Original title

Del amor y otros demonios

Directed by

Hilda Hidalgo

Genre

drama film

Country

Costa Rica, Colombia

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl in colonial Latin America is bitten by a rabid dog. She is confined to a convent where she forms an unusual bond with a priest.

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What happens

Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a 2009 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Hilda Hidalgo, who also wrote the screenplay. The film was selected as the Costa Rican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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