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Violeta Went to Heaven (2011) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Apr 24, 2013 · "Violeta Went To Heaven" is director Andrés Wood's eventful yet purposefully mussed and jangly telling of the life of Chilean artist, singer and activist Violeta Parra that engages with her fraught existence in time-snapping fashion but gathers its narrative around her suicide, making it the central act of her life.
Mar 29, 2013 · Violeta Went to Heaven also suffers from an overtly conventional way of depicting the life events of an anything-but-conventional woman, a lazy flaw further highlighted by its brief moments of visual experimentation. These are quite beautiful, as the impeccable biopic aesthetics give way to Violeta’s 16mm black-and-white Bolex footage and ...
The intense, remarkable life of the Chilean singer-songwriter Violeta Parra is explored with sensitivity and exquisite lightness of touch in Andres Wood’s “Violeta Went to Heaven .”. Featuring a searching central perf from Francisca Gavilan, this beautifully lensed portrait moves elegantly back and forth in time to limn the life of a ...
In short, "Violet went to heaven" allows the viewer a simple exercise: to see a common history, stress, ups and downs of passion and destruction, and a remarkable inspiration of an artist. How it travels between the cliff and the idealization sometimes at the same time. And all with a visual poetry that accompanies the beat of the compositions ...
Jan 29, 2012 · Although Violeta Went to Heaven hints at the artistic vitality of the Chilean folk hero’s life, the execution is too oblique to have much of an impact. Spanish-language fests and markets will ...
Mar 29, 2013 · The biographical bits soon feel like a distraction from the music, performed by Gavilán. It’s heard often, but not often enough. Judging by the movie, Parra’s songs are fiery and haunting ...
