Nostalgia for the Light
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 13, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Icarus Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Patricio Guzmán | |
Narrated by | Patricio Guzmán | |
Screenwriting by | Patricio Guzmán | |
Director of Photography: | Katell Dijan |
Entertainment Reviews:
NOSTALGIA offers a very decent account of the last gasps of the movement protesting against Pinochet's atrocities.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
You wait all year for a thought-provoking movie-essay on life, art, science or history. Then in Nostalgia for the Light all four arrive together.
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Financial Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Sticking in the mind, Nostalgia for the Light leaves much food for thought on life's important questions.
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Little White Lies
The film's passionate insistence on remembrance lends it a moral as well as a metaphysical weight. Mr. Guzman's belief in eternal memory is an astounding leap of faith.
New York Times
An exquisitely shot essay on ultimate things - time, space, memory and how creatures so small and frail as human beings find meaning in a gigantic cosmos.
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NPR's Fresh Air
Rating: 5/5 --
This is one of the films of the year.
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Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
A seriously remarkable documentary-essay from the Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
People look intently into the past for a variety of reasons in this documentary from Patricio Guzmán. With its high altitude and clear skies, Chile's Atacama Desert has long been a favorite location for astronomers investigating the mysteries of the night sky, and as one of them points out to Guzmán, when we look at the stars, we look at the past, since it took many years for their light to travel far enough for us to see it. While astronomers are a common sight in Atacama, they also share the barren lands with archaeologists, who search for engravings, artifacts, and mummies that will offer a glimpse of life as it was lived centuries before these scientists arrived. But while these men and women sift through the mysteries of the ancient past, ordinary Chilean citizens struggle to find out the truth about what happened to their relatives and loved ones during the violence of the Pinochet regime. NOSTALGIA POR LA LUZ (aka NOSTALGIE DE LA LUMIÈRE or NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT) was an official selection at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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- UPC: 854565001312
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