Violeta Visited Paradise (Violeta se fue a los cielos)

A BF release (in Chile) from the Minera Escondida presentation from the Wood Producciones, Maiz Producciones, Bossa Nova Films production in colaboration with BG TV. (Worldwide sales: Wood Producciones, Santiago.) Executive producers, Patricio Pereira , Pablo Rovito, Fernando Sokolowicz, Denise Gomes, Paula Cosenza, Billy Garlick. Directed by Andres Wood. Script, Eliseo Altunaga, Rodrigo Bazaes, Guillermo Calderon, Wood, good book by Angel Parra.With: Francisca Gavilan, Thomas Durand, Christian Quevedo, Patricio Ossa, Luis Machin, Stephania Barbagelata, Roberto Faras, Gabriela Aguilera. (The the spanish language language, French dialogue)The intense, amazing existence in the Chilean singer-songwriter Violeta Parra is looked into with sensitivity and exquisite lightness of touch in Andres Wood's "Violeta Visited Paradise." Getting a searching central perf from Francisca Gavilan, this fantastically lensed portrait moves stylishly forward and backward with time to limn the presence of the woman who constantly fought to discover her place. Chile's Oscar submission reps a formidable addition to Wood's already solid oeuvre, in addition to its particularly Chilean subject isn't likely to prevent it from following Wood's "Machuca" into offshore arthouses. Despite the fact that some poetic license is inevitably taken, the pic is carefully good occasions of Parra's own existence, structured around a TV interview the singer gave in 1962. Elevated in poverty in southern Chile since the daughter from the alcoholic schoolteacher named Nicanor (Christian Quevedo), Parra will be a spirited child immediately. Becoming an adult, she was deeply romantic and deeply political, writing tunes that might be achingly lyrical or stridently defend the oppressed. Key occasions proven include Parra's travels using the Andes hills giving shows just like a duet along with her sister Hilda her visit to a vintage guy inside the countryside from whom sherrrd like to know tunes, but who'll not sing carrying out a dying of his grandchild her trip to the Intl. Youth Festival in Belgium, that they returns to discover her year-old daughter has died of pneumonia her in time Paris, where she exhibits her focus on the Louvre her tempestuous, on-off relationship with anthropologist Gilbert Favre (Thomas Durand) and her installment from the arts center in the remote tent within the Andes. These occasions are proven considerably from sequence, though Andrea Chignoli's precision editing guarantees that moments set years apart are created lighting rather than confusing by their juxtaposition. Some welcome comic relief comes through the 1962 interview, through which Parra handles persistence while using snide questions from the right-wing Argentinean interviewer (Luis Machin). Gavilan supplies a profoundly committed, rangy perf that handles being intense, gutsy and nuanced at one time, and bespeaks a idea of the value of getting Parra right regarding Chilean auds. The script allows for just about any warts hpv warts-and-all portrait that's definately not simple hagiography. Parra's multiple contradictions exist: She's headstrong but insecure, social but lonely, adventurous but home-loving, and more importantly, never quite able to be an excellent mother to her children. (Pic is founded on the memoirs of one of these simple, Angel.) Typically of Wood's films, production values are topnotch. Using locations is especially strong, and lenser Miguel Joan Littin, Wood's longtime collaborator, renders the peculiar light and textures from the Andean mountain village as capably while he does people in the banks in the Seine by evening. Visually, the pic is not dull and often demonstrates a daring sense of framework, as being a lovemaking scene shot using the gaps between floormats. Pic features about 20 mostly guitar-based tunes that repetition a fantastic choice of Parra's work, although her most broadly used tune, "Gracias a la vida," is missing. The highlight can be a searing, soul-baring performance of "El gavilan" (The Sparrowhawk), featuring the street that the pic might have been built: "I have nowhere being.InchDigital camera (color/ B&W), Miguel Joan Littin editor, Andrea Chignoli music, Violeta Parra art director, Rodrigo Bazaes appear (Dolby Digital SR), Miguel Hormazabal. Examined on DVD, Madrid, March. 29, 2011. Running time: 110 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com