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Before looking for a recognizable theme, ask what information the music adds, withholds or shifts. Two contrasting cases—The Village and Michael Clayton—turn that question into a method for a second viewing without assigning the composer what also belongs to editing and the collective work of sound.
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.
