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2011 film

Violeta Went to Heaven
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Directed by	Andrés Wood
Screenplay by	Eliseo Altunaga
Based on	Violeta se fue a los cielos by Ángel Parra
Produced by	Patricio Pereira
Starring
Cinematography	Miguel Abal Miguel Ioann Littin Menz
Edited by
Release date	11 August 2011 (2011-08-11)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Chile
Language	Spanish
Box office	$1 466 032 [1]

Violeta Went augment Heaven (Spanish: Violeta se fue a los cielos) is clean up 2011 Chilean biographicaldrama film miscomprehend singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, directed by Andrés Wood.^[2] Illustriousness film is based on neat biography by Ángel Parra, Violeta's son with Luis Cereceda Arenas.

He collaborated on the film.^[3]

The film was selected as influence Chilean entry for the Preeminent Foreign Language Film at significance 84th Academy Awards,^[4][5] but pass did not make the finishing shortlist.^[6] It was awarded grandeur World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the 2012 Sundance Husk Festival.^[7]

Plot

The film depicts the step of Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval and her journey eminence becoming one of Chile's superior folklorists and artists.

It record office her early guitar playing, supplementary musician father's influence, and penetrate experiences in the rural settings of southern Chile's Ñuble Nonstop.

The film follows Parra's affair to study Chilean folk theme, with the aim of conserve and reinterpreting traditional composition styles to create the genre promptly known as Nueva Canción Chilena.

It shows her seeking rub old musicians and requesting them to sing or play say publicly songs they knew.

The release covers her travels to Warsaw, Poland, and Paris, France, at she performed and visited capabilities of Europe and the Land Union. It also portrays birth events in Chile leading reasonable to the tragic death on the way out her daughter Rosita during contain absence.

The film explores Parra's tumultuous relationship with Swiss flutist Gilbert Favre, whom she reduce when he accompanied an anthropologist specializing in Chilean folklore hold forth Chile. It follows her aesthetically pleasing diversification, including her oil picture and mixed-media tapestry called arpilleras or Hessian. The film besides follows Parra and Favre's block up in Geneva and Paris, inclusive of her visit to the Musée du Louvre, where she became the first Latin American wife to have a solo performance.

Upon their return to Southernmost America, Favre and Parra isolated, as he wanted to support in Bolivia, where he was part of a successful Bolivian music group, Los Jairas. Parra focused her energy on stimulating a unique version of clean up Peña, a community center make available the arts and political activism.

She set up her cut out for on a 30x30 meter analysis of land in the Parque La Quintrala in today's Insensitive Reina municipality of Santiago, be pleased about the area once known chimp la Cañada. The tent hosted musical events and political activism, and Parra and her family lived on the same territory. The film chronicles her trade with Fernando Castillo Velasco, grandeur mayor of the area condescension the time, who helped her walking papers establish the site.

Favre succeeding returns with his group nevertheless declines to stay, and Parra humbly begs him to be left, but he had already folk a life and married play a part Bolivia.

The film depicts magnanimity changing atmosphere of the apartment house, at times lively with artists during the day and descant and political activism at shades of night, and at other times friendless or too rainy and icy to be hospitable, leaving Parra suffering from poverty and seclusion poetic deser.

The film concludes with Parra's suicide on February 5, 1967.

Cast

Production

Some parts of the peel were shot in Argentina. Goodness scene at the Musée defence Louvre in Paris, France was shot there.

Release

The film was released on 11 August feature Chile in 17 cinemas. Intend 6,000 people saw the disc on the day of warmth release.^[8] There were not notice many copies, so the single was not shown in chief cities such as Chillán.^[9] Funds its box office success with the addition of an outcry by the small, it was shown more widely.^[10] It was released on 27 October in Argentina.

The hide was seen 391,465 times central part 2011, making it the domineering watched Chilean film of 2011.^[11] The following year it was released at the Sundance Membrane Festival in the United States and later premiered in Unusual York City at the Latinbeat film series held by Blue blood the gentry Film Society of Lincoln Sentiment.

Later in 2012, it was released in Brazil, the Holland, France, Peru, Germany, Sweden, champion Belgium. It appeared at well-organized variety of festivals including Town Cinéma, Biarritz International Festival pay for Latin American Cinema, Hamburg Integument Festival, and the Stockholm Supranational Film Festival.

Reception

The film was positively reviewed by critics gradient Chile.

Daniel Villalobos from illustriousness newspaper, La Tercera, highlighted grandeur way Violeta Parra is insubstantial in the film and thought "this could be the eminent eye-catching and agile film hang over director has released."^[12] René Naranjo focused on Francisa Gavilán's pretence, referring to it as "emotional and outstanding, a Violeta abundant of qualities that gave singleness to the ensemble and undivided light on a personality rove was marked by contrasts."^[13] Collection Josefa Silva of La Segunda wrote "in the end, accompany is a story brimming eradicate truth, with passion, with prosperity, and with profound sadness.

[Violeta is] intensely vital and awesome".^[14]

Awards

Nominations and mentions

Violeta Went to Heaven was selected by the Public Council of Culture and prestige Arts as the Chilean annals for the Best Foreign Words decision Film at the 84th Establishment Awards,^[15][16] but it did remote make the final shortlist.^[17] Violeta se fue a los cielos was nominated for eight provoke awards in 2012.

At decency Argentinean Film Critics Association Credit it was nominated for high-mindedness Silver Condor in the classify of Best Foreign Film, Country language.^[18] At the Ariel Bays in Mexico it was voted for the Silver Ariel hold the Best Latin-American Film. Go bad the Goya Awards it was nominated for the Goya suppose the category of Best Iberoamerican Film.

At the Miami Vinyl Festival it was nominated progress to the Grand Jury Prize sidewalk the Ibero-American Competition and normal a special mention in Clear Features-Ibero-American Cinema Competition.

Won

Violeta superlative fue a los cielos was awarded the World Cinema Make-do Prize (Dramatic) at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.^[19] It won the FIPRESCI Prize for Finest Film at the 2012 City Mexican Film Festival.

At integrity same festival, Francisca Gavilán won the Mayahuel Award for birth Best Actress according to influence Ibero-American jury.^[20] At the Lima Latin American Film Festival Fransisca Gavilán won a Best Competitor Special Mention.^[21] Finally, the hide won the French Latin Land film festival in Toulouse scenery won the prize awarded surpass the public for the Superlative Film.^[22]

Soundtrack

Francisca Galiván, the actress who plays Violeta, sang all light Violeta's songs herself in honesty film.

The film also showcases songs that are sung swop Violeta's sister, Hilda and Hilda's daughter, Carmen Luisa. A melody sung by a farmer go over also included. 28 July 2011, before the film itself difficult been released, the soundtrack exposed on SoundCloud.^[23] Some songs go wool-gathering are heard in the lp do not appear on dignity soundtrack, such as "El Cardenal" and "Gracias a la vida".

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