The Pearl Button

A slow, meditative dive into water, memory and loss that leaves you quietly haunted by history's erased voices.

Directed by

Patricio Guzmán

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Patricio Guzmán, Martín G. Calderón, Gabriela Paterito

Overview

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.

How it feels

Melancholic, bleak, eerie and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, death, colonialism, isolation

Content

Strong violence. Mild gore. No sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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