Patricio Guzmán’s documentary leaves open the possibility of a future for Chileans that isn’t beholden to the trauma of history.
For Patricio Guzmán, to gaze at the Cordillera is to comprehend the range of history and the possibility of its distortion.
Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s documentary is monumental for its clamorous sounding of an alarm.
Despite the defeated tone of Patricio Guzmán’s tales, a spotlight is placed on the power of persistence.
Nostalgia for the Light sees remembrance as political and poetic act, and something elementally human.
The drinks that go down amiably in Hahaha get caught in people’s throats in On Tour.
The film is a marvelously shaped thesis that’s both disquieting and humbling.
A present-tense record of nation-splitting turmoil, the film is a landmark of activist cinema.
This is a political thriller that would have had Costa-Gravas and Oliver Stone furiously taking notes.
Both figuratively and literally, Patricio Guzmán’s latest represents an excavation.
Patricio Guzmán’s distance from the material is mostly admirable.