1. I’m not going to lie, I was exhausted and fell asleep briefly somewhere in the middle. I’d feel shame about that but the woman a couple of seats down the row was sawing logs like there was no tomorrow.
  2. Lots of beautiful vistas to be seen here, both in space and on earth.
  3. As I am insensitive, this didn’t do much for me. I liked it all right but in terms of emotional connections, it left me a little cold. The connections between the astronomers and the relatives of the Disappeared seemed a little tenuous; that one woman they interviewed worked as an astronomer and was the daughter of two of Pinochet’s victims seemed like too convenient a way to tie the two stories together. There are similar thematic concerns for each group of people (the search for understanding, for origin; the piecing together of stories through artifacts from the past, etc.) but I don’t think the stories were woven together tightly enough.
  4. That’s about it.

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Categories: 3 Stars