Day: May 30, 2025
‘Cielo’ Director on His Visceral Film About a Bolivian Girl in Search of Heaven, Aided by Female Wrestlers
What precisely is “heaven”? And the way far would you go to succeed in it? Eight-year-old Santa, the protagonist of U.Ok.-based Spanish writer-director Alberto Sciamma’s Bolivia-shot film Cielo, is prepared to go far, very far, after swallowing a vivid yellow fish. She isn’t solely pulling a cart from her residence in the desolate Bolivian Altiplano