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Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Cinema
October
17
7 PM

Event Details

Date & Time:

Thu October 17, 2019
7 PM

Location:

The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Audience:

Free and open to the public

Details:

Nostalgia for the Light
(Patricio Guzmán, 2010, France/German/Chile/Spain, 35mm, 90 min)

35 years after his landmark 1975 film The Battle of Chile vividly captured the chaos surrounding the overthrow of the Allende government, documentarian Patricio Guzmán returns to the painful memories of the Pinochet years in Nostalgia for the Light. This moving film explores Chile’s Atacama desert, home to one of the world’s most powerful observatories—and to the bones of hundreds of political prisoners abducted and murdered by the military regime. Guzmán artfully juxtaposes our universal search for answers with the quest for justice carried on by the nation’s survivors. 

Lily Frusciante, doctoral candidate in Northwestern’s Department of Spanish & Portuguese, will introduce the film

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu