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International Film Forum: THE PEARL BUTTON
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The Pearl Button [El botón de nácar] is a 2015 film from Chile,France, and Spain directed by Patricio Guzmán.
THE PEARL BUTTON [El botón de nácar] (Patricio Guzmán, 2015, Chile/France/Spain, 82 min.)
Presented by Cecilia Cornejo
“For decades, the Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has made nonfiction movies about his country’s troubled history, specifically the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and the murders and disappearances during Pinochet’s regime that continue to reverberate. The subject exerts something like a tidal pull on Mr. Guzmán, but in The Pearl Button he turns his lyrical, probing mind to the ocean that lines Chile’s seemingly endless coast and defines his homeland. […] A master of voice-over and metaphor (the title alone has an amazing payoff), he sifts through essential truths and draws links between Chile’s past and present inhabitants.” Nicholas Rapold, The New York Times
Sponsored by International Film Forum. Contact: Marla Erickson, Cecilia Cornejo