The Cordillera of Dreams
Pyramide Distribution | Release Date: February 12, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesGlenn KennyFeb 11, 2020
The Cordillera of Dreams is a beautiful film about nightmares that have yet to end. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezFeb 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
80
Little White LiesMarina AshiotiOct 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
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 4, 2022
This is rich and valuable testament to Chilean courage. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeb 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
80
VarietyJessica KiangAug 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
80
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungAug 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
80
CineVueMartyn ConterioAug 26, 2019
The Cordillera of Dreams is a stirring look at a nation still recovering from the brutalisation meted out by General Pinochet’s callous and paranoid actions, but Guzmán goes further to offer his opinion of the present issues facing the country, specifically neoliberalism’s assault on land, resources and people. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeOct 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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