Nostalgia for the Light
2010 · 93 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 6,326 VOTES · DIR. Patricio Guzmán
Overview
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
Dialogue Timeline — 713 lines
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00:01:53 NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT
00:06:31 ...science fell in love with the Chilean sky.
00:09:33 ...came and went between the high plains and the sea.
00:14:58 And yet the fundamental questions pondered by man
00:17:30 Even if it is a matter of millionths of a second.
00:19:26 A historian does the same thing.
00:24:18 Why are some places more suitable for this study of the past?
00:26:24 How many secrets are we keeping...
00:32:16 ...they used the houses of the 19th-century miners
00:34:32 ...marvelling at the constellations
00:38:33 When I decided to leave a testimony...
00:40:50 ...whilst Anita is forgetting...
00:45:36 But it is estimated...
00:49:18 There's no comparison.
00:51:29 So that the bodies could never be found
00:54:52 A foot. It was still in his shoe.
00:56:54 The next day, my husband went to work...
00:59:24 ...and threw them into the sea.
01:01:42 And I'm not the only one.
01:07:21 ...I would never be able to forget.
01:11:43 ...who were tracking another kind of body: celestial bodies.
01:15:47 Will they have earned a museum space like the whale?
01:19:18 ...so that other stars can be born, other planets, a new life.
01:21:44 I am happy that my son is growing up like this.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed713
Dialogue density7.7 lines / min
First line00:01:53
Final line01:21:44
Production Record
DirectorPatricio Guzmán
LanguageSpanish
IMDb votes6,326