![Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director who is internationally renowned for anti-neoliberalist films such as The Battle of Chile (1975-79) and The Pinochet Case (2001). A still in the film.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjM3OTA2NzYwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzI3NzA0MzE@._V1_QL75_UY140_CR2,0,140,140_.jpg)
![Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director who is internationally renowned for anti-neoliberalist films such as The Battle of Chile (1975-79) and The Pinochet Case (2001). A still in the film.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjM3OTA2NzYwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzI3NzA0MzE@._V1_QL75_UY140_CR2,0,140,140_.jpg)
Rounding out his sublimely meditative, deeply personal documentary-essay trilogy on time, memory and the relationship of Chile’s breathtaking landscapes to its troubled human history, Patricio Guzmán delivers “The Cordillera of Dreams,” a haunting and allusive exploration of the cultural impact of the country’s most spectacular geological feature: its snowcapped mountain spine. Coming after the exploration of the Atacama Desert and the night sky that was “Nostalgia for the Light” and the investigation of the impact of water along the vast Chilean coastline in “The Pearl Button,” the rockier, more rigid “Cordillera” feels perhaps the least expansive and surprising of the three. But if that makes it more a grace-note coda than an equally powerful stand-alone entry, that still only puts it a few clicks south of essential.
Taken as a completed project, Guzmán’s late-career trinity is a stunning achievement in the cinema of the hidden pattern and the startling,...
Taken as a completed project, Guzmán’s late-career trinity is a stunning achievement in the cinema of the hidden pattern and the startling,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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