Undoubtedly, Patricio Guzmán is an accomplished and gifted filmmaker with his talents evidently shown in both his documentaries La Batalla de Chile and Nostalgia de la Luz. Both documentaries pertain to the coup d'état, which occurred in 1973 in Chile, that overthrew the legally elected socialist President Allende, and subsequently began the autocratic and oppressive rule of the dictator Pinochet from 1973 to 1990. While both movies concern the same subject matter, the prominent distinction between both documentaries is the date of production: La Batalla de Chile was filmed in the moments leading up to the coup in 1973 and Nostalgia de la Luz was filmed in 2010, nearly 40 years after the coup occurred. Although Guzman does a beautiful job juxtaposing
