Chile Trilogy: how to watch a historical trilogy without mistaking national continuity for a single story
Patricio Guzmán’s so-called Chile Trilogy brings together Nostalgia for the Light, The Pearl Button and The Cordillera of Dreams. It is best watched in that order, but not as a linear account or a total explanation of Chile: it is a series formed gradually, in which landscape, first-person voice, testimony and archival images serve different functions in each film.