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Violeta Went to Heaven

Violeta se fue a los cielos

Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Spain

2011

110 Min
Color
Spanish
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DIR Andrés Wood

EXEC Paula Cosenza, Denise Gomes, Pablo Pereira, Pablo Rovito, Fernando Sokolowicz

SCR Eliseo Altunaga, Ángel Parra, Rodrigo Bazaes, Guillermo Calderón, Andrés Wood

DP Miguel Ioann Littin Menz

CAST Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Patricio Ossa, Jorge López, Stephania Barbagelata, Roberto Farías, Gabriela Aguilera, Cristián Quevedo, Marcial Tagle, Luis Machín

ED Andrea Chignoli

PROD DES Rodrigo Bazaes

MUSIC Violeta Parra

Sundance (World Cinema Dramatic Competition): Grand Jury Prize

Synopsis

A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes. –Sundance Film Festival

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Andrés Wood

Andrés Wood Montt is a Chilean film director born in 1965. He is most famous for the films Historias de Fútbol / Soccer Stories (1997), La Fiebre del Loco/ Loco Fever (2002), his most well known film Machuca (2004) and his most recent La Buena Vida/ The Good Life (2008). His 2011 film Violeta has been selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.

Wood is a Chilean of Irish and Scottish descent. He was educated at a private English school in Santiago. He graduated as an economist from the Catholic University of Chile in 1988. In 1991 he studied at the New York University Film School. —Wikipedia 

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Marfil

28Mar12

É, sobretudo, de sonhos que o diretor Andrés Wood constrói seu filme: Não a historia oficial de Parra, tão pouco a cronologia de sua vida, simples, realista, bruta, mas episódios abrangentes, tão caoticamente oníricos como são os sonhos, as sensações, as emoções. O diretor os funde na tela, dentro de cada expectador, num crescente, numa canção, enfim em arte (cinematográfica)

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ramosbarajas

26Mar12

As with many biopics, this feels sometimes fragmented. However, it manages to capture a magical mood and it holds it all the way to the last moments. The photography is great, and is capable of jumping from one setting to the other with perfect synchronicity. The performances are all spot on, especially Gavilán who is impressive during the dramatic moments and the performance moments.

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Francisco R.

8Jan12

A huge leap forward compared to what I've seen in national cinema so far, a wonderful biopic full of inner rhymes relating both inner and outer world of Parra's vision told with such rhythm and grace it doesn't only offer valuable insight into her work but takes away a considerable part of the grimness in her life to make this work much more solemn, and ultimately an endeavor of sheer love and respect.

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Como en el muro la hiedra

By javier quinter​o on January 7, 2012

Es muy estimulante ver una película biográfica que, durante gran parte de su duración, alterna diversos tiempos y espacios de la vida de su protagonista a través del montaje. Se libera de la linealidad…  read review

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