Today in class we watched Patricio Guzmán’s documentary Nostalgia de la Luz from 2010. Like most of his other films, the documentary deals with the disappearance of the detained political prisoners who went missing during Pinochet’s dictatorship. This documentary is particularly set in the desert of Atacama, where Guzmán intertwines the stories of Chilean astronomists who work there, and a group of women who are searching the desert in hopes of finding the remains of their loved ones. I’m impressed by how Guzmán is able to tell both narratives of the characters, seamlessly, although their storylines are completely different, Guzmán is able to connect both to the landscape the film is set in. I really enjoyed the use of the stardust effect used to edit scenes within the film. I particularly enjoyed the scene at the end of the documentary where Guzmán uses the star dust effect over a shot of two of the women with Gaspar the astronomer, as he shows them how to look through the telescope to see the stars. Although these women never have a happy ending, I thought this shot gave the audience some sort of closure as it shows both subjects of the storylines together at the very end of the film.