Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All films > Films Documentary > Becoming Traviata
Becoming Traviata is a french film of genre Documentary released in USA on 15 may 2013 with Jean-François Sivadier

Becoming Traviata (2012)

Becoming Traviata
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 15 may 2013
Length 1h52
OriginFrance
Rating66% 3.3180253.3180253.3180253.3180253.318025

Becoming Traviata is a 2012 French documentary film chronicling rehearsals of the Verdi opera La traviata at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Directed by Philippe Béziat, the film focuses largely on stage director Jean-François Sivadier working with coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay. The film's French title is Traviata et nous (Traviata and Us).

Synopsis

Le film suit les répétitions de la mise en scène de La Traviata de Jean-François Sivadier pour le Festival d'Aix-en-Provence en 2011 : les premières mises en place en salle de répétition, puis le travail en coulisse et sur scène au théâtre de l'Archevêché.

Actors

Jean-François Sivadier

(Himself)Charles Castronovo
Natalie Dessay
Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Becoming Traviata

There are 2 films with the same actors, 8913 with the same cinematographic genres, 13748 films with the same themes (including 0 films with the same 8 themes than Becoming Traviata), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Becoming Traviata, you will probably like those similar films :
The Other Song
The Other Song (2009)

Directed by Saba Dewan
Genres Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about prostitution, Musical films

The story is that of a lost semi-classical Thumri song, Lagat Karejwa ma Chot, Phool Gendwa na Maar, sung in 1935 by Rasoolan Bai, the well known singer from Varanasi. The film shows in detail that tawaifs were not mere sex workers, but were great artistes who contributed to music, dance, theatre, film and the Urdu literary tradition.
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)
, 1h25
Directed by Zana Briski
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Zana Briski
Rating71% 3.597523.597523.597523.597523.59752
Briski, a documentary photographer, went to Kolkata to photograph prostitutes. While there, she befriended their children and offered to teach the children photography to reciprocate being allowed to photograph their mothers. The children were given cameras so they could learn photography and possibly improve their lives. Their photographs depicted a life in the red light district through the eyes of children typically overlooked and sworn off to do chores around the house until they were able to contribute more substantially to the family welfare. Much of their work was used in the film, and the filmmakers recorded the classes as well as daily life in the red light district. The children's work was exhibited, and one boy was even sent to a photography conference in Amsterdam. Briski also recorded her efforts to place the children in boarding schools although many of the children did not end up staying very long in the schools they were placed in. Others, such as Avijit and Kochi not only went on to continue their education, but were graded well.
Mutantes
Mutantes (2009)
, 1h30
Directed by Virginie Despentes
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about prostitution, Political films, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Catherine Breillat, Annie Sprinkle
Rating63% 3.1553753.1553753.1553753.1553753.155375
Une série d'entretiens internationaux (États-Unis, France, Espagne) avec des intellectuels, écrivains, théoriciens, militants queer sur le féminisme pro-sexe et la postpornographie. L'ensemble des propos est illustré par des images d'archives centrées sur l'action politique des travailleuses du sexe et par la captation de performances artistiques.
I Am Divine
I Am Divine (2013)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Divine, Jayne Mansfield, John Waters, Tab Hunter, Ricki Lake, David Lochary
Rating74% 3.744273.744273.744273.744273.74427
Le documentaire retrace la vie de Glenn Milstead, dont le personnage de Divine a été sacré « plus belle femme du monde ». Petit garçon timide, jeune homme complexé, il découvre les bars gays puis le travestissement. Un voisin passionné de cinéma, John Waters, le fait tourner dans ses premiers films. Avec ses amis habilleur et maquilleur, Milstead crée le personnage excessif et scandaleux de Divine qu'il interprète dans les films Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs et Pink Flamingos. À la fin des années 1970, il se lance dans la chanson et fait plusieurs tournées aux États-Unis et en Europe. Il revient au cinéma en 1981 avec Polyester, puis dans Lust in the Dust de Paul Bartel et Wanda's Café. Peu après le succès de Hairspray, il meurt d'une crise cardiaque dans son sommeil.
In the Realm of the Senses
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
, 1h42
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Documentary, Horror, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Taiji Tonoyama
Rating65% 3.299783.299783.299783.299783.29978
In 1936 Tokyo, Sada Abe (Eiko Matsuda) is a former prostitute who now works as a maid in a hotel. The hotel's owner, Kichizo Ishida (Tatsuya Fuji), molests her, and the two begin an intense affair that consists of sexual experiments and various self-indulgences. Ishida leaves his wife to pursue his affair with Sada. Sada becomes increasingly possessive and jealous of Ishida, and Ishida more eager to please her. Their mutual obsession escalates to the point where Ishida finds she is most excited by strangling him during lovemaking, and he is killed in this fashion. Sada then severs his penis, walks around with it inside her for several days, and writes, "Sada Kichi the two of us forever," in blood on his chest.
I Loved So Much...
I Loved So Much... (2008)
, 50minutes
Directed by Dalila Ennadre
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Politique, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about prostitution, La guerre d'Indochine, Political films, Erotic thriller films, Histoire de France

The documentary describes the life of a Moroccan woman employed as a prostitute in a military brothel by the French Colonial Army who took part in the Indochina War. Past 70, Fadma says she agreed to do the documentary so that France would recognize her as they do their veterans: "I too took part in the war".
Hit So Hard
Hit So Hard (2012)
, 1h43
Directed by P. David Ebersole
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Courtney Love, Melissa Auf der Maur, Sarah Vowell, Jenny Shimizu
Rating67% 3.3798553.3798553.3798553.3798553.379855
The film begins with discussion amidst Hole's 1994 and 1995 world tour, then works backwards to Schemel's childhood growing up in Marysville, Washington, and details her coming out to her family as a lesbian, as well as her immersion in Seattle's music scenes, where she would eventually cross paths with Kurt Cobain. Through contemporary interviews with Schemel's bandmates Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, and Melissa Auf der Maur, her beginnings in Hole are detailed, including her audition with Love and Erlandson in Los Angeles amidst the Rodney King riots, as well as her time living with Love and husband Kurt Cobain, and the songwriting process between Love, Schemel, and Erlandson. Additional commentary from fellow female drummers, musicians, peers, and friends of Schemel's are provided throughout. After the death of Hole's bassist Kristen Pfaff in 1994 (only two months after the suicide of Kurt Cobain), the band embarked on a world tour with Auf der Maur as Pfaff's replacement, and Schemel, along with Love, began heavily using heroin. Schemel's drug use leads to a breakup with her girlfriend, who acted as Love's personal assistant on the tour, and Schemel reflects on her time in a rehabilitation facility she checked into with Love after the conclusion of the tour in 1995.