When you miss buying a masterpiece, you get a friend to give it to you. I spent almost fifteen years delaying my date with María del Carmen Huerta: soulful woman, complex mindset, amazing hips and her words could destroy the walls of nowhere. The story is insane, the characters are dark, the playlist is remarkable (salsa and rock ‘n roll); sometimes you can’t see clearly if you are reading a horror story, or a love square (no triangles allowed) story, or if it’s Caicedo’s will before committing suicide.

On the other hand, MCH days seem less important when she’s not enraptured, and no one can keep up at her pace. Whether love or admiration, chance or likelihood, fear or rage, doesn’t matter what you see if you don’t feel the ache in every pore, if your eyes don’t burn with sunlight, if your mouth ain’t dried after sex. You can’t say you’re alive if you haven’t cheated death.

No god, no devil. MCH knows she’s above. Music is her lightness. Music is her cross, a bearable one, with more needles than blood.

Now go and read ¡Que viva la música! by Andrés Caicedo.

!QUE VIVA LA MUSICA! 

(LIVEFOREVER)

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL / SECTION New Frontier Films

Hovering over the river that segregates Cali, Colombia, into haves and have-nots, a haunting presence identifies a perilous willingness among the populace to do anything that is asked of it. A blonde teenage girl, knowing she must change her life, leaves her well-appointed house and flagrantly gives herself over to this tolerant city, saying "yes" to everything provocative it offers her. Only the music tethers her body and spirit together, even as she reaches for redemption through a bold, delicious, and resplendent self-destruction.

Carlos Moreno returns to the Sundance Film Festival (Dog Eat Dog, 2008, andAll Your Dead Ones, 2011) with this wild, beautiful, kaleidoscopic celebration of youth, hedonism, and the transforming power of music. Inspired by the 1977 best-selling cult novel by Andres Caicedo, and drenched in a Fania Records soundtrack, Liveforever defies all narrative convention to deliver a lyrical, heady experience driven by mesmerizing bolts of energy, drugs, sexuality, irreverence, and salsa.