The Nightingale and the Night: Chavela Vargas sings Lorca.

A meditative, dreamlike documentary that drifts between poetry and memory, offering a warm but melancholic farewell to an artist facing death.

Directed by

Rubén Rojo Aura

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Chavela Vargas, Lila Downs, Laura García Lorca

Overview

Chavela Vargas and Federico García Lorca are the main characters of this story. Poetry and music are the places of their meetings. Chavela explains when he lived in the same room where Federico García Lorca lived decades ago, was visited by a bird that contained the soul of the Spanish poet. In her last year of life, Chavela fulfills her last wish: to make a tribute to Spanish poet and finally meet him in the ranks of death. The Nightingale and the Night is a documentary that chronicles the transition from Chavela life to death, her union with Federico, dissolving the borders between reality and dreams.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, warm and eerie. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Death, art, memory, identity

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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