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Chile’s Past Is Present in the Desert
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: March 17, 2011

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile — the setting of Patricio Guzmán’s transfixing cinematic essay “Nostalgia for the Light” — is a place where heaven and earth converge. Or some might say heaven and hell. More