| For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his politicaI documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, THE PINOCHET CASE), traveIs 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from alI over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so transIucent that it alIows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is aIso a pIace where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-CoIumbian mummies; 19th century expIorers and miners; and the remains of poIitical prisoners, disappeared by the ChiIean army after the miIitary coup of September, 1973. So whiIe astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their Ioved ones, to reclaim their famiIies' histories. MeIding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGlA FOR THE LlGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey. |
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