Nostalgia de la luz 2010

Critics score:
100 / 100

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Stephen Holden, New York Times: The film's passionate insistence on remembrance lends it a moral as well as a metaphysical weight. Mr. Guzman's belief in eternal memory is an astounding leap of faith. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: A moving meditation on history, knowledge and mortality. Read more

John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: As a work of nonfiction, it deserves its own nomenclature. "Docu-poem" is too inelegant; "masterpiece" works, although it's been used before. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: "I am convinced that memory has gravitational force," says Guzman in conclusion. "Nostalgia" states his case so beautifully that even skeptical physicists will be thoroughly convinced. Read more

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: A nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A film of rare visual poetry that's simultaneously personal, political and philosophical, it's a genuine art film that's also unpretentious and easygoing. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Has the overwhelming power of an outrage to decency. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Katell Djian's stunning cinematography adds to the film's power. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: Guzman offers a poetic narrative that celebrates the searches and insists on the moral obligation to remember Chile's not-too-distant past. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Patricio Guzman's documentary, Nostalgia for the Light, pays equal attention to the astronomers and searchers, regarding their quest as the same -- a search for life. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Nostalgia for the Light isn't didactic in the strictest sense. It simply shows the truth, illuminated by [Patricio Guzman]'s poetic voiceover narration and the found sound of wind and footsteps that echo across the desert plains. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: A truly eye-opening experience. Read more

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Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The filmmaker's masterpiece, an exquisitely filmed, poetically written meditation on how past and present fuse in humanity's most unresolved questions. Read more