What does an important railway line actually mean? And who is going to still be there to tell its story, when the final train to cross it becomes but a memory of the elderly, its tracks begin to rust, and weeds begin to rise in the spaces between its crossties? Buenos Aires al Pacífico, Mariano Donoso’s 2018 feature film, raises these questions and many more. Its aim is anthropological, historical, aesthetical. Donoso follows the tracks of such a history, which runs across more than a century, unearthing ideas and illusions, solidary communities and specters of catastrophe along his path. His camera captures something of the essence of these impalpable things, crossing concrete territories and affective islands in an ample memorialist inquiry, along the route between Buenos Aires and Valparaíso.

Victor Morozov

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Film critic and journalist; writes regularly for Dilema Veche and Scena9. He studied film theory in Grenoble, Paris, Dublin.

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