My Imaginary Country

Name: My Imaginary Country
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 23, 2022
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 86

2022

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My Imaginary Country: The Revolt

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Icarus Films | Release Date: September 23, 2022 | Not Rated

Summary: One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education, health care, and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during theOne day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education, health care, and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during the Pinochet military dictatorship. Urgent and inspired, My Imaginary Country features harrowing front-line protest footage and interviews with dynamic activist leaders and powerfully connects Chile's complex, bloody history to contemporary revolutionary social movements and the election of a new president. [Icarus Films]… Expand

Director: Patricio Guzmán

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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A.O. Scott

Sep 23, 2022

While this is a first-person documentary, with the director providing voice-over narration, it expresses a poignant humility and a patient willingness to listen. Read full review

Ray Lobo

Sep 26, 2022

Guzmán’s skills as a documentarian have not eroded one bit. His soft narration reminds one of Werner Herzog sans his, at times, metaphysical excesses. The director captures incredible footage of the protests as a functioning organism, a sublime wave of furious power. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Sep 29, 2022

My Imaginary Country is as much about the causes, participants and outcomes of a collective awakening in search of a more promising future as it is about an artist allowing himself to feel hope for a homeland that has forever been the focus of his artistic preoccupations. Read full review

The Playlist Rafaela Sales Ross

Sep 23, 2022

As newly-elected president Gabriel Boric takes the stage to address the nation that placed upon him precious trust, it is hard not to be moved by the electric rawness of hope. Read full review

Marina Ashioti

Jun 8, 2023

All the ingredients here are invaluable, and the film’s vision comes alive with a real sense of hope about the soul of Chile and its thirst for change that’s palpable, not imaginary. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Sep 23, 2022

While in formal terms it’s more of a standard, reportage-based doc than any of his recent essays, it is also the rarest of projects: one in which a venerated member of an older generation of political activists communicates a fervent admiration for his younger counterparts and a deep, grateful optimism for the future they are building. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Sep 23, 2022

By the end of My Imaginary Country, Guzmán has still not moved past the trauma of history. Nor, he suggests, has Chile. Not yet. But he does leave open the possibility of a future not beholden to that trauma and a nation that might now be able to write a new history for itself. Read full review

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Deadheadbill

Sep 26, 2022

A very personal documentary of the recent turmoil and subsequent revolution in Chile by director and narrator Guzman. You can't watch it and not be moved by both the struggles and resiliency of the Chilean people.

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