Saga is a long literary tradition in Latin America. Every country has kind of reference works for its own history: Chile has “The house of the spirits” by Isabel Allende, Mexico has “Lovesick” by Angeles Mastretta, Uruguay has “The invisible mountain” by Carolina de Robertis… Latin American authors have always counted the history of their country by the scope of a character or a family, on several generations, especially during the troubled 20th century. “Villa Diamante” could become the Venezuelan reference of the genre. Continue reading
It has been one of the events of Chilean cinema in the last few years and critics have been rhapsodic about it. It even won a prize in recent Sundance Festival (the World Cinema Jury Prize). “Violeta went to heaven” is the biopic of singer and artist Violeta Parra directed by Andres Wood (“The good life”, “Machuca”, “Loco fever”, etc.). She was one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century in Latin America and she is still an important figure for popular music, in the tradition of popular protest songs of the continent. 
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