(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #228 - Cinema: Patricio Guzm?n: Nostalgia for the Light (fr)

Nostalgia for the Light is a documentary film released in 2010 that the question of how 
deep the past, with shading in the history of Chile and particularly sinister military 
dictatorship (1974-1990) of General Pinochet. Chilean director Patricio Guzman, who has 
spent half his life in exile, notably produced the startling documentary trilogy The 
Battle of Chile (1975-1979) - which worked Chris Marker - and two documentaries on 
opposite faces of Pinochet and Allende: The Pinochet Case (2001) and Salvador Allende 
(2004). ---- With this documentary, Guzman managed to film a poetic and paradoxical way 
the Chilean Atacama Desert, with some tragic scene, and explores how philosophical and 
committed various temporal dimensions of past astronomical, archaeological and historical.

In this desert is one of the driest in the world, Guzman us and meet several characters 
whose stories intertwine and document the traumatic history of the Chilean dictatorship. 
With a special mention for this group of some women who rake this vast desert for decades 
on a shoestring and looking stubbornly remains of their missing [ 1 ], the dictatorship 
has done everything to destroy the traces of mass graves. Through this little documentary 
broadcast in Chile but internationally rewarded its release, Patricio Guzman continues his 
fight against oblivion. He says in effect: " A country without documentary film is like a 
family without a photo album . "

At the time comes to open the landmark trial in Argentina twenty-five leaders of Operation 
Condor - covert operation initiated in 1974 with the sponsorship of the CIA by the 
Argentine intelligence services, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia joined by those of 
Brazil and Peru in order to establish an international campaign of assassinations, 
anti-guerrilla and state terrorism - this documentary sounds salutary.

Marcos Vega (Paris AL East)

? Nostalgia for the Light , Patricio Guzm?n, 2010, documentary, 1:30.

The Parisian independent film The Key continues to project each week. To mention another 
film about the Chilean dictatorship: No , Pablo Larra?n

[ 1 ] In 2002, he was still lost in 1198-es, according to the book by Antonia Garcia 
Castro, The Slow Death of missing in Chile , Ed Maisonneuve and Larose.