Cinema Releases - The Cordillera of Dreams

BFI London Film Festival 2019. Patrico Guzmán's new film 'MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY is on at the BFI LFF 2022

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★★★★
"Patricio Guzman's documentary juxtaposes historical chaos with the eternal beauty and mystery of the mountain range..the awe-inspiring Cordillera that surrounds his home town of Santiago
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Patricio Guzmán has described The Cordillera of Dreams, which follows his Nostalgia for the Light (2010) and The Pearl Button (2015), as the final entry in a trilogy; all three documentaries are unified by his poetic narration of a political journey through Chile’s recent history…

“In Chile,” states Guzmán, “what cannot be seen does not exist.” The Cordillera of Dreams gives visibility to the unseen. This extraordinary, poetic, political work is a heartfelt corrective to a mode of being that intentionally turns away; it encourages the viewer to look deeply at things that have been erased, overlooked, or, like the Cordillera, taken for granted. It brings into existence hidden histories as a way of better contextualising the past and better understanding the relationship between landscape and memory, which continues to shape the present.

Maria Delgado, Sight & Sound


'In this poetic documentary, filmmaker Patricio Guzmán meditates on the past and future of his home country via the mountains that close it off from the rest of the world.'A deeply personal film…Cordillera is a more directly and immediately political statement than Guzmán's last two films.'
Jonathan Romney, Film Comment

★★★★
In this conclusion to Patricio Guzman's trilogy documenting the long nightmare of Chile's coup through its landscape, the Cordillera - the country's Andes spine - is an impassive monumental witness to the Pinochet regime's buried acts, and victims' graveyard. Guzman the soft-spoken, enraptured narrator gives a sense of bardic reverie to these masterfully edited, lustrously beautiful films.
This confirms Guzman's lightly worn status as Chile's national cinematic poet, remembering the disappeared, and the beloved, benighted country they disappeared into.'
Nick Hasted, The Arts Desk


'Patricio Guzmán completes a superb trilogy tracking a personal, political and philosophical journey through Chile's history and landscape.'
Jessica Kiang, Variety

'Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán's The Cordillera of Dreams caps off an astonishing set of history-focused essay films, beginning with Nostalgia for the Light and continuing with The Pearl Button. The trilogy represents one of the great artistic statements of the decade.'
Martyn Conterio, CineVue

'Chile's Patricio Guzmán makes a scathing condemnation of his country's social amnesia regarding the Pinochet dictatorship, through an ode to the geographical miracle of the Andes.'
Carlota Mosegul, Cineuropa

'Whatever the future holds for his native land, Guzman's trilogy will have its place in their history, as does The Battle of Chile.'
Marc Glassman, POV Magazine

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