The mountain range both separates and protects the country from the rest of the world, says Guzmán; the country’s topography is an extended metaphor for its rocky political realities.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2022

It’s a thoughtful essay on what remains unsaid in the South American state and how the spectre of the past impacts on the present.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2022

This affecting lithograph of Chile culminates in the intersection of personal, political and poetic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2022

This is rich and valuable testament to Chilean courage.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2022

Anyone that accuses Guzmán of being rambling in Cordillera is not really paying attention to the nature of his lifelong filmmaking project.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2022

In this final chapter, Guzman is more autobiographical and also, more pessimistic. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 21, 2022

The mountain range is strength and energy, loneliness and madness, life and death at the same time. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 15, 2021

Patricio Guzmán launches his drone over the Ande... like a primal monster that looks indifferently at the story of a country that is also that part of a globalized world avant la lettre. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2021

Guzmán evokes a poetic sense of imposing mysteries and unrepairable fissures, which spread through him - and economically unbalanced Chilean culture - like the solemn valleys that course between the Andes' peaks.

Full Review | Jan 27, 2021

The Cordillera of Dreams is the last in Guzmán's latest documentary trilogy on his home country. Despite the utopia of the Allende years, when he returns to Santiago he does not find the beach under the paving stones...

Full Review | Jan 9, 2021

something quite extraordinary-a poetic political-historical documentary that finds a sublime balance between the horrors of human atrocity, the potential for redemption and growth, and the enormity of the world in which it all takes place

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 16, 2020

[Patricio] Guzmán has an almost poetic way of demonstrating the rot and neglect among the beauty of the Andes.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2020

We may not always know where Guzmán will end up, but what keeps the film from ever seeming discombobulated is certain themes repeat: specifically, how events can be powerful enough to leave impressions that are impossible to erase.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 30, 2020

With Cordillera of Dreams, Documentarian Patricio Guzmán completes his trilogy contrasting the beauty of Chile's landscapes with the horror of its recent political history by focusing on the deceptively unchanging Andes cordillera.

Full Review | Feb 29, 2020

If time seems to pass more slowly in Chile, according to Guzmán, it is because vital questions have lost none of their relevance.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2020

[Guzman]is cinema's principal documenter of Chile's turbulent recent history and its lasting effects on contemporary society...

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 23, 2020

To turn the camera on such suffering is a vital, sometimes heroic act. To turn the camera on rocks and glaciers may be a less intuitive form of resistance, but one that Guzmán invests with its own powerful meaning.

Full Review | Feb 20, 2020

[The Cordillera of Dreams] contains blunt talk and unvarnished footage of the brutal facts of modern Chilean history [that] makes for a compelling, revelatory essay.

Full Review | Feb 19, 2020

2010's Nostalgia for the Light looked at the desert; 2015's The Pearl Button explored the ocean. Now we come to the mountain.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2020

"The Cordillera of Dreams" is a beautiful film about nightmares that have yet to end.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2020