El botón de nácar

Dynamic and fertile southern environments, and the most rugged terrain and desert; Chile is a country of majestic and impenetrable dualities.

However the ambivalence, it ends and joins in a story, the story of a continent mirrored in a Patagonia fisherman. Like the shameless flow of a creek; like the noise of the woods it develops: from the first indigenous people, the learning about the benefits of water; then, a colonization, a change and oblivion. A river stops running but no one cares.

The great filmmaker Patricio Guzman proposes in "The pearl button" both a deep look and a break from Latin American history.

The deep look of natural environments, with a sublime photography, footage and effects team as unexpected as exceptional. The pause, asking questions everybody does -but silently-, in various creative forms; Is there a limit to cruelty? Why we look at stars? Can we be, contrary to what we have been, a great family?.

A documentary that, as the pearl button, transcend time.

Highly recommended.