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Deliberately paced yet hypnotically absorbing, The Pearl Button offers a poetic look at the wonders of the natural world -- and humanity's place among them.
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This haunting Chilean documentary is more poetry than journalism as filmmaker Patricio Guzman compares the fate of the indigenous people of Patagonia with that of the disappeared of the Pinochet regime. Apr 8, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
This haunting Chilean documentary is more poetry than journalism as filmmaker Patricio Guzman compares the fate of the indigenous people of Patagonia with that of the disappeared of the Pinochet regime.
Kate Taylor
The Pearl Button is a piece of visual poetry that meanders along the waterways, coastline and history of Chile, coming into sharp and horrifying focus on the atrocities of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Mar 18, 2016 | Rating: 4/5
The Pearl Button is a piece of visual poetry that meanders along the waterways, coastline and history of Chile, coming into sharp and horrifying focus on the atrocities of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
Kate Muir
A sobering, lyrical essay film on Chile's various physical and emotional surface areas. Mar 18, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
A sobering, lyrical essay film on Chile's various physical and emotional surface areas.
Glenn Heath Jr.
Guzmán's reputation as one of the great documentarians will only be enhanced by The Pearl Button. It really is intelligent, magnificent film-making. Mar 17, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Guzmán's reputation as one of the great documentarians will only be enhanced by The Pearl Button. It really is intelligent, magnificent film-making.
Andrew Pulver
Another philosophical and cosmic historical documentary. Mar 14, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Another philosophical and cosmic historical documentary.
Dave Calhoun
This is history of a personalized and meditative sort, and you ought to give it a chance. Dec 3, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
This is history of a personalized and meditative sort, and you ought to give it a chance.
Walter V. Addiego
An astoundingly beautiful visual essay which revels in the stunning scenery of Chilean Patagonia, it morphs into a harrowing depiction of the nation's distant and recent past. Apr 8, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
An astoundingly beautiful visual essay which revels in the stunning scenery of Chilean Patagonia, it morphs into a harrowing depiction of the nation's distant and recent past.
Matthew Anderson
Guzmán's predilection for naïve wide-eyed wonder weighs down his recent films, never eclipses the most striking feature of his work: the way in which dreamy musings and far-fetched speculations coexist with toughness, prickliness, and matter-of-factness Nov 14, 2017 | Full Review…
Guzmán's predilection for naïve wide-eyed wonder weighs down his recent films, never eclipses the most striking feature of his work: the way in which dreamy musings and far-fetched speculations coexist with toughness, prickliness, and matter-of-factness
Max Nelson
A fascinating journey through Chile's troubled past. May 10, 2017 | Full Review…
A fascinating journey through Chile's troubled past.
Mary Palmer
The most recent documentary by Patricio Guzmán explores and faces the past and the presen of Chile, looking at the heavens and turning down, towards the earth. Or, in this case, to the sea. [Full review in Spanish] Mar 8, 2017 | Full Review…
The most recent documentary by Patricio Guzmán explores and faces the past and the presen of Chile, looking at the heavens and turning down, towards the earth. Or, in this case, to the sea. [Full review in Spanish]
Ernesto Diezmartinez
Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán delivers a stunning companion piece to his 2010 film Nostalgia For The Light, continuing his exploration of the effects of Augusto Pinochet's ruthless dictatorship. Dec 28, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán delivers a stunning companion piece to his 2010 film Nostalgia For The Light, continuing his exploration of the effects of Augusto Pinochet's ruthless dictatorship.
Matt Looker
Time and again, Guzman generates profound meanings from simple concepts. Dec 28, 2016 | Full Review…
Time and again, Guzman generates profound meanings from simple concepts.
Mike McCahill
The rambling nature of Guzmán's poetic digressions makes this film frustrating despite his sensitive intentions, and so it seems more like a mixed bag of cheesy esoteric assertions about water and random musings on indigenous people, dictatorships, pearl buttons and supernovas.
Super Reviewer
First film I viewed at the Melbourne International Film Festival of 2015, a beautifully shot and composed documentary, focusing on the primitive Chilean water landscapes and culture along the country's boarder/coast. A lot of great insight into the mystical understanding of this culture as well as how long it has survived up til modern times. Its big essential viewing on subjects I wouldn't have ever known, especially about Chile's past dealt with dark and intimidating historical stories that are really fascinating.
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