Nostalgia for the Light
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85 out of 100

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8.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: Patricio Guzmán travels to Chile’s Atacama Desert where astronomers examine distant galaxies, and women dig for the remains of relatives. (Icarus Films)

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Amy Biancolli
    May 12, 2011
    100
    Nostalgia for the Light is a strange and stunning work of art: a poem disguised as a movie about astronomers in the Atacama desert of Chile.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Apr 21, 2011
    90
    A film of rare visual poetry that's simultaneously personal, political and philosophical, it's a genuine art film that's also unpretentious and easygoing.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Mar 17, 2011
    90
    The film's passionate insistence on remembrance lends it a moral as well as a metaphysical weight. Mr. Guzmán's belief in eternal memory is an astounding leap of faith.
  4. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    Mar 15, 2011
    80
    A moving meditation on history, knowledge and mortality.

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  1. joomjim4
    9
    The film is truly a stunning work of art. It's a visual philosophical poetry film focuses on the issue of life and the past. While the astronomers are still sifting through the universe, earthlings like women in Chile kept looking for bodies of their beloved ones that has been chopped and buried in the Atacama desert - even so, they share one similar concept - the searching for the past. The mission seems impossible but it's Hope and Memories that kept it alive even how evil the mission could be, human will try to get what they want whether it means to step on other people bodies or not.Yet it is because of Hope and Memories that create our present conciousness and allow us to decide the path we live in.… Expand
  2. joregano
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A Documentary that shows constructs a very effective combination, Patricio GuzmÃ… Expand

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