As we meet some of the women who Chavela loved and lost, we discover how deeply she loved, and the tragedy of being loved by her fans, yet so alone. This led not only to her extreme alcoholism during the first half of her career, but also her endless romances and affairs at one point in the film we discover that Chavela had seduced all of Mexico and half of Hollywood at the height of her career. She was a game-changer in every sense of the word, and though her legacy is enormous in Latin America and parts of Europe, directors Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi are determined to take her complex story to the world in the documentary Chavela.īeginning with her move to Mexico as a young child from Costa Rica, Chavela chronicles the incredible loneliness of Chavela Vargas, her estrangement from her family and exclusion from public life, because while her sexuality was okay onstage, in Mexican society it was unacceptable. She was a pioneering female artist in Mexican Ranchero music a fierce lesbian who continues to empower the Mexican LGBT+ community her 70+ year career survived turmoil and heartbreak, and she continued to perform well into her 90s, still selling out shows mere weeks before her death. Chavela Vargas was an icon in so many ways.
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