Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

Original title

Nostalgia de la luz

Directed by

Patricio Guzmán

Genre

documentary film

Country

Chile, France

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

Κ

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 169 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary connects astronomers looking at stars to women searching for remains of relatives killed under Pinochet's dictatorship. The film shows how both groups seek to understand the past through layers of time and dust.

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What happens

Nostalgia for the Light (Spanish: Nostalgia de la luz) is a 2010 documentary film by Patricio Guzmán to address the lasting impacts of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Guzmán focuses on the similarities between astronomers researching humanity's past, in an astronomical sense, and the struggle of many Chilean women who still search, after decades, for the remains of their relatives executed during the dictatorship. Patricio Guzmán narrates the documentary himself and the documentary includes interviews and commentary from those affected and from astronomers and archeologists. As a filmmaker, Patricio Guzmán's filmography has focused mostly on the political and social issues that have plagued Chile. He explored Chile under Salvador Allende and his government (Salvador Allende, 2004), and Pinochet's dictatorship and his human rights abuses (see Batalla de Chile (The Battle of Chile trilogy, 1975-1979), Le cas Pinochet (The Pinochet Case, 2001), and others; the latter film deals more so with the aftermath of those human rights abuses). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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