Blu-ray Review – The Pearl Button

Writer/director Patricio Guzman has built a career inspecting Chilean woes and bruised history, with special attention to the years ruled by dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose violent reign still reverberates in the country today. The helmer returns to duty with "The Pearl Button," a companion piece to his 2010 documentary, "Nostalgia for the Light," with focus now put on water and its special relationship with Chile. Guzman doesn't possess the strongest directorial focus, but his passion is unmistakable, leading audiences on a journey from a tiny droplet to the outer reaches of the galaxy, in search of sanity and order. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com