No Time Like the Past

Patricio Guzmán’s Chronicle of a Forgetful Nation

There are few filmmakers who have woven their oeuvre around a single subject like the Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzmán. While other stories have earned his attention intermittently throughout his career, his work has largely documented the short-lived socialist government of Salvador Allende and the Coup d’etat that overthrew him, and its reverbera…