Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Patricio Guzmán's The Pearl Button (2015) is playing December 10, 2016 - January 8, 2017 in the United States.For several years two questions have consumed me: What stories do landscapes tell? and How do landscapes tell these stories? My interest is in examining everyday sites—or their depictions in film and art—and searching for clues that tell about a region’s history. The environments we inhabit frequently, though often quietly, reveal how these places came to be as we know them. They betray the ethics that shaped and continue to shape the land. This is an alternative and useful tool for examining history, politics, and memory.Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s poetic 2015 documentary The Pearl Button utilizes this approach to tell several Chilean histories, from the settling of Patagonia over 10,000 years ago to the CIA-backed Augusto Pinochet dictatorship that terrorized the nation for seventeen years.
- 12/22/2016
- MUBI
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