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(2017)
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Chavela

The story of a pioneering singer from Costa Rica who revolutionized Mexican music.

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Nominated for two awards at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, this intimate documentary focuses on Chavela Vargas' first interview in 1991, following nearly two decades lost in alcohol. With never-before-seen images and interviews with collaborators like the great filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, 'Chavela' is a warm and melancholy look at a Mexican music legend and her loves, two realms where she was as pioneering as she was rebellious.

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The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012.

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