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“Violeta Went to Heaven” – a portrait of an Chilean Icon – Los Angeles film review
For most of its running time, Violeta Went to Heaven plays out as an engaging although not quite intimate biopic – an illuminative portrait of Chilean singer and artist Violeta Parra (Francisca Gavilán), whose music voiced the poetry and anguish of her nation’s poor. Not always crystal clear, the film begins with Violeta’s childhood and ends with her death – but in between takes liberties with characters and chronology, juxtaposing, for example, a pilgrimage across Chile (to gather and archive traditional folk songs), with sojourns in Europe, and then again with a birthday party among friends, an occasion when she meets flautist Gilbert Favre (Thomas Durand), the love of her life. Towards the end, it shifts away from its arm’s length storytelling to plumb the interior landscape of this unique and complex woman.
Writer Eliseo Altunaga frames the story with an interview of Parra by a snide, reluctantly deferential television host, who asks pointed questions about Par
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Francisca Gavilán
Chilean film, theater, and television actress and singer
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gavilán and the second or maternal family name is Valladares.
Francisca Gavilán | |
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| Born | María Francisca Gavilán Valladares (1973-06-27) 27 June 1973 (age 51) Santiago, Chile |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1997–present |
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María Francisca Gavilán Valladares (born 27 June 1973) is a Chilean film, theater, and television actress and singer.
Acting career
Francisca Gavilán graduated from the Theater School of Fernando González [es] in 1994, with the play Madame de Sade, directed by Rodrigo Pérez. In this academy she was a student of Luz Jiménez, who has been one of her main artistic influences.[1] She also counts as influences Tamara Acosta – who was her partner at theater school and on the cast of Los Pincheira and Papi Ricky – Amparo Noguera, and Paulina Urrutia.[2]
She has particip
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Violeta Parra
Chilean musician and folklorist (1917-1967)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Parra and the second or maternal family name is Sandoval.
Violeta Parra | |
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| Birth name | Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval |
| Born | (1917-10-04)4 October 1917 San Fabián de Alico or San Carlos, Chile |
| Died | 5 February 1967(1967-02-05) (aged 49) Santiago, Chile |
| Genres | Folk, experimental, nueva canción, cueca |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, Visual arts[1] |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Guitar, Charango, Cuatro, Percussion, Harp |
| Years active | 1939–1967 |
| Labels | EMI-Odeon Alerce Warner Music Group (all posthumous) |
| Website | web.archive.org/web/20000621221302/http://www.violetaparra.scd.cl/index.htm/ |
Musical artist
Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval (Spanish pronunciation:[bjoˈletaˈpara]; 4 October 1917 – 5 February 1967) was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist.[2] She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena (The Chilean New Song), a renewal and a rei
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