The Cordillera of Dreams

Name: The Cordillera of Dreams
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 12, 2020
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Francisco Gazitúa, Jorge Baradit, Pablo Salas, Vicente Gajardo

2020

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Pyramide Distribution | Release Date: February 12, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Francisco Gazitúa, Jorge Baradit, Pablo Salas, Vicente Gajardo

Summary: Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the democratically-elected government, but he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture, and a place on the map that he never forgot. After covering the North in Nostalgia for the Light and the South in The Pearl Button, his shots get up-closePatricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the democratically-elected government, but he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture, and a place on the map that he never forgot. After covering the North in Nostalgia for the Light and the South in The Pearl Button, his shots get up-close with what he calls "the vast revealing backbone of Chile's past and recent history.… Expand

Director: Patricio Guzmán

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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Glenn Kenny

Feb 11, 2020

The Cordillera of Dreams is a beautiful film about nightmares that have yet to end. Read full review

Ed Gonzalez

Feb 8, 2020

For Patricio Guzmán, to gaze at the Cordillera is to comprehend the range of history and the possibility of its distortion. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Aug 26, 2019

Taken as a completed project, Guzmán’s late-career trinity is a stunning achievement in the cinema of the hidden pattern and the startling, unexpected connection. Read full review

Deborah Young

Aug 26, 2019

In and of itself, it is a mournfully intelligent, poetic documentary that once more seeks to link the vastness, grandeur and indifference of nature with the human horrors that Chileans have lived through. The search for meaning is so personal here (Guzman narrates most of the film in the first person) and so difficult that it is often heart-rending. Read full review

Justin Chang

Feb 20, 2020

Contemplative, analytical and troubling, this is a nature film refracted through a historical trauma, a compilation of visual wonders that doubles as an act of remembrance. Read full review

Marina Ashioti

Oct 19, 2022

Guzmán wistfully laments his long absence from his homeland and the circumstances that led him to flee, imbuing his reflections with a tangible sense of mourning. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Oct 11, 2022

It’s a highly personal documentary: in addition to focusing on the mountains, Guzmán revisits his childhood home, now derelict, and explores his own archive footage of the 1973 coup d’état that prompted his relocation to France. Read full review

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