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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 13 Nov 2015

Patricio Guzman, who chronicled the military coup against Salvador Allende in his documentary trilogy The Battle of Chile, has begun, in old…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 12 Nov 2015

As often happens in Guzmán’s films, The Pearl Button keeps returning to the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship of 1973-90, during which thousands…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 11 Nov 2015

There is more explaining than necessary, much of which does not explain, but suggests deeper, darker connections like the depths of the ocean,…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 01 Nov 2015

Patricio Guzmán, whose latest is a companion piece to his ...Nostalgia for the Light, is some kind of cosmic, philosophical, naturalist historian…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 29 Oct 2015

Dealing with horrors of this intensity and scale, Guzmán can be forgiven a slight penchant for the galactically vaporous…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Oct 2015

A stunning combination of art and politics. My pick for best documentary of 2015 and probably of the past decade…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Oct 2015

For most of its 80-minute length, The Pearl Button meditates lyrically on water and its effects on humankind…

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By Nicolas Rapold (488) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Oct 2015

A master of voice-over and metaphor (the title alone has an amazing payoff), [Mr…

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By Avi Offer (997) for NYC Movie Guru (997) on 20 Oct 2015

Powerful, haunting and provocative. Equally spellbinding, breathtaking and disturbing. It should be mandatory viewing for all Chileans…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Oct 2015

A haunting mediation on water replacing its predecessor’s preoccupation with stars and dirt…

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By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Oct 2015

Despite the defeated tone of Patricio Guzmán's tales, a spotlight is placed on the power of persistence…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Oct 2015

The voiceover is lyric, the oceanscapes majestic, the anthropology fascinating, and the connections more quizzical and uncertain than in Nostalgia…

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By Jay Weissberg (182) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Sep 2015

What “Nostalgia for the Light” did for the desert, The Pearl Button is meant to do for water, but the deft melding of past and present…

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By Kevin B. Lee (21) for Indiewire (3,631) on 29 Sep 2015

The Pearl Button is a vivid, essential portal to understanding not only the heritage of a nation, but also the art of nonfiction cinema…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Sep 2015

Guzmán's essential thesis seems to be that, in turning its back on the ocean, modern Chile lost a crucial part of its identity…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 29 Sep 2015

Tools associated with fiction are used to tell the truth, and an elegant tone is deployed to disguise a righteous fury…

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By Deborah Young (235) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 29 Sep 2015

It is the director’s extraordinary intuition about the synchronicity of history, geography and the physical universe – a mysterious relationship…

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By Patrick Gamble (128) for CineVue (2,163) on 29 Sep 2015

Inhabiting the space between fact and fiction, where repressed memories often seek refuge, The Pearl Button weaves a fascinating, yet traumatic…

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