[THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS screens Thursday March 5th
at 6:30 pm and Friday March 6th at 9:40pm.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
Director Patricio Guzman fled Chile, the country of his
birth, in the mid-seventies to escape the brutal Pinochet dictatorship. He
remains an expatriate to this date. But although he no longer lives there, he
keeps returning to make films, seeking to understand his country and the lasting
impact Pinochet continues to exert even after death.
Starting with 2010’s NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT, Guzman
has made a series of films exploring the intersection of Chile’s past and present.
He has done this by focusing on various regions, beginning with the Atacama Desert in NOSTALGIA, moving south to Patagonia in 2015’s THE PEARL
BUTTON, and now focusing on the Andes mountain region in his latest film, THE
CORDILLERA OF DREAMS.
