The Pearl Button
Watch TrailerThe 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.
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| Original Title | El botón de nácar |
| Year | 2015 |
| Country | Chile, France, Spain |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Patricio Guzmán |
| Runtime | 82 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 6.9/10 (73 votes) |
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Patricio Guzmán constructs a poetic meditation, using water as a central metaphor for memory, pain, and resistance. He relies on archival footage, hypnotic underwater cinematography, and testimonies to explore the connection between indigenous cosmology, colonial violence, and the political repression of Pinochet's regime.
What lingers after viewing is not just a documentary, but an immersion into a nation's collective unconscious, where personal tragedies dissolve into the eternal rhythm of the tide. The film leaves one with a sense of bearing witness to nature's quiet, relentless testimony. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Patricio Guzmán
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In complete silence, on a large screen, to feel the hypnotic scale of the oceanic panoramas.
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