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Robinson Crusoe Island
CHILE · 1999

Robinson Crusoe Island

Patricio Guzmán
literary adaptation real-world exploration childhood nostalgia island geography documentary essay
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Synopsis

A passionate fan of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as a 13-year-old boy, Guzmán was delighted to find in his adult years that the story is based on actual events & a real place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 700 kilometres from the Chilean coast. This moves him to film & construct a kind of ironic travel journal as he sets out to rediscover the island, all the while in constant play with the

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