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  <read_at>Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a short but fascinating true story of a film director from Chile, exiled after the Pinochet coup, who sneaks back into the country after 12 years in order to do a documentary about the state of the nation.  Despite its factual nature, Garcia Marquez narrates the book in a dramatic first person style and it is a distillation of an 18-hour interview he did with the filmmaker.<br/><br/>Oddly, nowhere in the book is there mention of the name of the film that Littin produced from the 105 thousand feet of footage he and his 5 crews shot in Chile over the course of a month or so.  I looked it up on IMDB though and it's called &quot;Acta General de Chile&quot; - it doesn't look like there's an english version, unfortunately.  But, it can be seen on Google Video here:  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1859733182923582382#" title="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1859733182923582382#">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...</a><br/><br/>At any rate, the book is a great snapshot at what Pinochet's regime did to Chile after just 12 years, and an empathetic look at the effect of exile on a creative and patriotic artist.]]></body>
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