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The Pearl Button
The Pearl Button
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THE PEARL BUTTON

El botón de nácar

Directed by Patricio Guzmán
France, Chile, 2015
Documentary

Synopsis

Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers, as well as the voice of the Patagonian indigenous people. Some say that water has memory, but it also has a voice.

Synopsis

Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers, as well as the voice of the Patagonian indigenous people. Some say that water has memory, but it also has a voice.

Our take

Chilean maestro Patricio Guzmán followed Nostalgia for the Light with another beautiful and provocative documentary. This Berlinale award-winner explores the worldly and cosmological connection between his country’s landscape, its conflicted colonial history, and a bloody twentieth century.