Nostalgia for the Light

Name: Nostalgia for the Light
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: March 18, 2011
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 91

2011

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Nostalgia For The Light

Movie Details & Credits

Icarus Films | Release Date: March 18, 2011 | Not Rated

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

Director: Patricio Guzmán

Genre(s): Drama, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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3	#3 Best Movie of 2011

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 30, 2015

It is deeply intelligent, intensely and painfully political, and yet attempts, and succeeds, somehow to transcend politics and perhaps even history itself. Read full review

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The Telegraph Tim Robey

Sep 30, 2015

The network of links he builds, and the film’s ever-deepening empathy for those whose search can’t be satisfied, are persuasive enough to banish doubt, leaving you humbled, shocked and moved. Read full review

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John Anderson

Sep 30, 2015

As a work of nonfiction, it deserves its own nomenclature. "Docu-poem" is too inelegant; "masterpiece" works, although it's been used before. Read full review

Jesse Cataldo

Sep 30, 2015

Guzmán creates an interesting dialectic between the different searchers profiles, uniting them under an umbrella of humanism and cautious hopefulness. Read full review

Noel Murray

Mar 17, 2011

It's also poetic and meditative in a way that never feels pretentious. Read full review

Tom Dawson

Sep 30, 2015

Drawing on the testimonies of some fascinating interviewees, and filled with dazzling digital images of galaxies and landscapes, it’s a film that makes you ponder the mysteries of human existence anew. Read full review

Stephen Cole

Mar 15, 2011

Patricio Guzmán's documentary, Nostalgia for the Light, pays equal attention to the astronomers and searchers, regarding their quest as the same – a search for life. Read full review

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krsarmiento

Sep 27, 2013

The poetry of this majestic movie is not that hard to conceive when you are in a place where the magic (Represented by the constant sparkles) works together with a beautiful view of our universe.

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joomjim4

Jun 18, 2012

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 andThe 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

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joregano

Mar 18, 2011

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A Documentary that shows constructs a very effective combination, Patricio GuzmÃ… Expand

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