'Deeply Affecting!' Critics Pick -New York Magazine 'An amazing film! Nostalgia for the Light gave me goosebumps so many times I lost count.' -Andy 'Copernicus' Howell, Ain't It Cool News 'An extraordinary film about the unknown and the unknowable.' -Sight & Sound Magazine I don't know how you can put more into a film, or make one that's more deeply moving.' -Stuart Klawans, The Nation

Silence and respect.' -Jacques Mandelbaum, Le Monde An insane accolade to mankind, a stellar song for the dead, a life lesson. At such a level, the film becomes more than a film. For forty years, Patricio Guzman has had to struggle every inch of the way, with a vivid memory and intimate suffering to reach this work of cosmic serenity, of luminous intelligence, with a sensitivity that could melt stone. Its complex canvas is woven with the greatest simplicity. 'NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is not only Guzman's masterpiece it is one of the most beautiful cinematographic efforts we have seen for a long time. Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey. So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families' histories. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies 19th century explorers and miners and the remains of political prisoners, 'disappeared' by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe.

For his new film master director Patricio Guzman, famed for his political documentaries ( THE BATTLE OF CHILE, THE PINOCHET CASE), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars.

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