open vlc movie file on raspberrypi

[Nickd12]

hello im trying to open a vlc media player movie file that's on the desktop of my rasp pi I have copied the file path and tried using subprocess call and open but it keeps telling me that there is no such file in the directory, anyone know why it would be doing this or if I should be doing it a different way? also side note I want to be able to close it as well