NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT (Patricio Guzmán, 2010)

“We cannot forget our dead.” Although it doesn’t quite merit the glowing reviews it has attracted, writer-director Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz is an impressive, disturbing and deeply moving documentary. It is an attempt to merge cosmos and, as Gen. Augusto Pinochet impressed it, Chilean history so that an infinite wash of stars soothes […]