Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
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For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, THE PINOCHET CASE), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of
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A truly eye-opening experience.
Top CriticA nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart.
Guzmán offers a poetic narrative that celebrates the searches and insists on the moral obligation to remember Chile's not-too-distant past.
The filmmaker's masterpiece, an exquisitely filmed, poetically written meditation on how past and present fuse in humanity's most unresolved questions.
A film of rare visual poetry that's simultaneously personal, political and philosophical, it's a genuine art film that's also unpretentious and easygoing.
"I am convinced that memory has gravitational force," says Guzmán in conclusion. "Nostalgia" states his case so beautifully that even skeptical physicists will be thoroughly convinced.
The vast expanse of the world's driest place - captured here in all its arid intensity - makes for a fascinating and eerie backdrop.
Patricio Guzman returns to the subject of his masterpiece.
This is a film to be seen, re-seen and pondered.
A seriously remarkable documentary-essay from the Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán.
A remarkably lyrical, strikingly beautiful documentary reflecting on memory, mortality and the inexorable passing of time.
This is one of the films of the year.
You wait all year for a thought-provoking movie-essay on life, art, science or history. Then in Nostalgia for the Light all four arrive together.
Sticking in the mind, Nostalgia for the Light leaves much food for thought on life's important questions.
Pasts both collective and personal are thoughtfully examined in Patricio Guzmán's ethereal documentary.
A fascinating and insightful documentary combining philosophical theories with personal tragedies that's beautifully directed and magnificent to watch.
A truly insightful art film that still manages to be easy-going and unpretentious.
A film that makes you ponder the mysteries of human existence anew.
Not just a phenomenal human story - which was guaranteed from the moment Guzmán chose his subject - but a gripping work of cinema as well.
Nostalgia for the Light sees remembrance as political and poetic act, and something elementally human.
A soul-searching meditation on the past.
...an almost perfect documentary, confronting history, memory, and science in a way that touches the heart, provokes the mind, and humbles the spirit.
In this poetic - though overstated - documentary, Patricio Guzmán ponders these two ways of looking back in time, merging the celestial and sublunary like Terrence Malick in The Tree of Life or Werner Herzog in Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
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- Narrator: Compared to the immensity of the cosmos, the problems of the Chilean people might seem insignificant. But if we laid them out on a table, they would be as vast as a galaxy.
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Foreign Titles
- Nostalgia for the Light (DE)
- Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz) (UK)
