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Maite Alberdi’s moving documentary spotlights Chilean journalist Augusto GÓngora, who helped his country retrieve its identity but lost his to Alzheimer’s disease, says Simon Ings
By Simon Ings
Augusto Góngora and Paulina Urrutia in their home
Dogwoof Releasing
The Eternal Memory
Maite Alberdi
10 November UK; Streaming in the US
SOMETIMES, to really understand a process, you have to follow it, without flinching, even if it upsets you, even if it breaks your heart.
Oscar-nominated director Maite Alberdi won a Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize this year for The Eternal Memory, a documentary partly made from original footage, home movies, newsreels and videotapes smuggled out of Chile during the darkest years of General Augusto Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship.
Its subject …
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