Nostalgia De La Luz

France – Germany – Chile 2010
Patricio Guzmán
90’

ARTE Award, International Documentary Festival DOK-Leipzig 2010, Special Screening Cannes Festival 2010

Veteran documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán is back with a giant undertaking that goes digging for memories at the Atacama desert. In a film so profound, it almost transcends the boundaries of non-fiction, Guzmán combines a nearly metaphysical approach to the human condition with a mystical astronomical journey laced with bottomless pain. Let us not forget the legendary Atacama, the driest desert in the world, was Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s favorite burial ground, where he disposed of thousands of dissidents, never to be heard of again. But that doesn’t mean their relatives have stopped looking...