With my imaginary country, Patricio Guzman returns to his first loves: report and direct cinema

With my imaginary country, Patricio Guzman returns to his first loves: report and direct cinema

The director of the Cordillera des Songes filmed the Revolution of the Chilean People, in 2019 and draws a very strong film from it.

Discovered in special session at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, My imaginary country will be visible from this Thursday evening, at 11:45 p.m. on Arte, as well asreplay. First advise you this “Direct documentary” of Patricio Guzman.

October 2019, an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. A million and a half people demonstrated in the streets of Santiago for more democracy, a more dignified life, a better education, a better health system and a new constitution. Chile had regained his memory. The event that I have been waiting for since my 1973 student struggles was finally materializing.

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Suddenly, the real struck the door. At the end of The Cordillera of Dreamsenvisaged as a sumptuous visual poem on the identity of chili millennium, Patricio Guzman found himself confronted with the very contemporary struggles when suddenly seeing, in the street, the population rise because of the increase in the price of transport.

A few months later, the exiled documentary maker returned to his first love: the report and the direct cinema. No more philosophy or fable: here Guzman therefore films action, rebellious women and the current revolution – which he necessarily looks at the prism of the one he had recorded in 73. This cry of pain and hope reveals as beautiful as its previous philosophical essays including this Imaginary country (Utopia which refers as much to the future dreamed as to the Chile of tomorrow) could be a raw and real coda.

The Cordillera des Dreams: Patricio Guzman no longer knows what end to take his country

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