| For his new fiIm master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his poIiticaI documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, SALVADOR ALLENDE), traveIs 10,000 feet above sea IeveI to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from aII over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it aIlows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a pIace where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century expIorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, disappeared by the ChiIean army after the military coup of September, 1973. So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest gaIaxies, 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 recIaim their families histories. MeIding the celestiaI quest of the astronomers and the earthIy one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personaI odyssey. |
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