Guzmán turns to Chile’s prominent Andes Mountains to complete an epic trilogy that closes with one of his most openly personal films. A ruminative meditation on childhood, memory and the vast sweep of Chilean history, Guzmán finds solace and unsettling questions in the mountains’ noble and immobile beholder. In the end, The Cordillera of Dreams makes an impassioned call for action, suggesting how human cruelty has destabilized the same climate—political and natural—and now threatens to destroy less with action than with inaction. Using geography to decipher not just the history but the very psyche of Chile, Guzmán’s powerful trilogy finds in landscape a resilient witness whose lasting and insightful testimony speaks most directly to those who are patient, compassionate and blessed with an open imagination able to envision a different future.