Review: Crack of Nostalgia for the Light Movie Free

Review: Crack of Nostalgia for the Light Movie Free

The vast Atacama desert in Chile is a place where time seems to stand still. The only place on Earth with zero humidity – the brown spot you can see on pictures taken from space – it’s the perfect place for studying astronomy, its thin cloud-free air offering unrivalled views of the stars. Here scientists use giant telescopes to peer back into the past, hoping to uncover the secrets of the Big Bang. They see themselves as archaeologists exploring a universe which, by the time its light reaches them, has already undergone thousands of years of further change.
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Elsewhere in the desert, archaeologists of a more traditional kind are at work. This dry climate preserves the dead like nowhere else. Every now and again ancient mummies are discovered, mostly traders who died whilst leading their llamas across the plains. Their woollen clothes still have their bright colours though their skin has often been torn away by the wind. Atacama is a portal into South America’s distant past. The Nostalgia Free 2011

Then there is another kind of mummy. Under the brutal regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet, thousands of people were ‘disappeared’. Some were dumped at sea, but some were buried in the desert. Many of the bodies have never been found. Chilean women still walk the desert looking for them. Though most are now nearing the end of their lives, they feel they cannot rest until they discover what has become of their loved ones.

These three subjects – the recent past, the ancient past, and the scarcely imaginable gulfs of time that can be glimpsed through space – make for such compelling contrasts that director Patricio Guzmán has wisely chosen to step back and let the story unfold largely by itself. His brief introductory narrative places the film in a personal context; his lingering shots of the open desert and the wide, clear skies help to capture the emotional experience of being there. Dazzling shots of distant galaxies help viewers without a background in astronomy to understand something of the appeal of the heavens even if they find it hard to understand the work taking place. The Nostalgia Free 2011

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