Nostalgia de la luz (2010)

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers explore the universe to find the origin of life, and not far away, local women are searching for the remains of relatives who were arbitrarily disposed of and killed by the Pinochet dictatorship. Director Patrick Guzman juxtaposes these two kinds of search for life, which is thought-provoking. This is a documentary filmed in the Atacama Desert at an altitude of 3000 meters. Astronomers gathered there to observe the stars. The place also attracts many visitors for one reason: the drought on the surface can keep human corpses intact. In addition to the corpses and the bodies of lost explorers, many politicians were imprisoned in this desert and died. The film highlights such two sides, comparing astronomers looking for extraterrestrial life to those fragmented families looking for loved ones. So the political aspect of the film is very clear. Every film by Patrick Guzm á n, the behind-the-scenes director, is about memories of the Chilean country in the 20th century: from his trilogy of "the War of Chile" shown in the parallel competition section of the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, all the way to Salvador Aramand, which was shown in a non-competition section in 2004. The Light of hometown.