This film based on the life of the great Chilean singer, composer, folklorist and traditional music compiler Violeta Parra is not bad, but the script followed the pedestrian structure of formulaic biopics, when the subject was a very complex artist, with a strong personality. It more or less follows the dialectic of "inspiring incident->song", "inspiring incident->song" and so on... Francisca Gavilán is very good, but Andrés Wood did much better with less compromised projects as the remarkable «Machuca.» Unfortunately, he was dealing with a major figure of world culture, and the result was rather average.
Review of Violeta Went to Heaven
