‘Cielo’ Director on His Visceral Film About a Bolivian Girl in Search of Heaven, Aided by Female Wrestlers
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What exactly is “heaven”? And how far would you go to reach it? Eight-year-old Santa, the protagonist of U.K.-based Spanish writer-director Alberto Sciamma’s Bolivia-shot movie Cielo, is willing to go far, very far, after swallowing a bright yellow fish.She is not only pulling a cart from her home in the desolate Bolivian Altiplano through vast desert landscapes and driving a big truck, but also ends up meeting a priest, policemen and an indigenous female wrestling troupe, among others. What drives her is her love for her mother, her desire to save her and herself from an abusive father, and her faith.Related StoriesMovies'The Love That Remains' Review: Hlynur Pálmason Follows 'Godland' With a Snapshot of Marital Dissolution More Elemental Than AffectingMoviesUberto Pasolini's'The Return,' Ira Sachs''Peter Hujar's Day' Set for 2025 Mediterrane Film Festival in MaltaThe film, starring newcomer Fernanda Gutiérrez Aranda, Fernando Arze Echalar, Sasha Salaverry, Cristian Mercado, Carla Ara...