Nostalgia for the Light Reviews
Fan The Fire
The vast expanse of the world's driest place - captured here in all its arid intensity - makes for a fascinating and eerie backdrop.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The List
Patricio Guzman returns to the subject of his masterpiece.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Telegraph
A seriously remarkable documentary-essay from the Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Daily Express
A remarkably lyrical, strikingly beautiful documentary reflecting on memory, mortality and the inexorable passing of time.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
This is one of the films of the year.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Financial Times
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Little White Lies
Sticking in the mind, Nostalgia for the Light leaves much food for thought on life's important questions.
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| Original Score: 4/5
What Culture
Pasts both collective and personal are thoughtfully examined in Patricio Guzmán's ethereal documentary.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
ViewLondon
A fascinating and insightful documentary combining philosophical theories with personal tragedies that's beautifully directed and magnificent to watch.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top Critic
Empire Magazine
A truly insightful art film that still manages to be easy-going and unpretentious.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Total Film
A film that makes you ponder the mysteries of human existence anew.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Not just a phenomenal human story - which was guaranteed from the moment Guzmán chose his subject - but a gripping work of cinema as well.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A soul-searching meditation on the past.
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| Original Score: A-
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
...an almost perfect documentary, confronting history, memory, and science in a way that touches the heart, provokes the mind, and humbles the spirit.
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| Original Score: A
Boston Phoenix
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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| Original Score: 3/4
A nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Reeling Reviews
Original music, sure-handed editing, the stunning panorama and scope of the observatories, the desert and the night sky, plus the heartbreaking stories of the searchers, make this a top contender for best documentary.
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| Original Score: A-
rec.arts.movies.reviews
...a provocative work, a documentary that doesn't merely present facts but induces its audience to connect ideas.
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| Original Score: A-
