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www.slantmagazine.com - : This resemblance between Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo is particularly curious considering that either film is often regarded as Herzog's masterwork. Aguirre is the more mystified and hallucinatory work (even the viewer inherits the questionable visions of the final sequence); Fitzcarraldo is a more objective record of a comparable fever dream, and as such is the preeminent testament of Herzog's labor as a filmmaker. This is especially redoubtable considering the frequent experimentation and intended audacity in his filmmaking: For Heart of Glass, Herzog hypnotized ... more...
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www.iofilm.co.uk - : Fitzcarraldo is a highly regarded piece of cinema. With critics consistently singing Werner Herzog's praises, writing a wholly objective review about one of his best known films is tricky. more...
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www.filmcritic.com - : Werner Herzog takes another river trip (after Aguirre, the Wrath of God), this time with the impossibly scary-looking Klaus Kinski as an only semi-insane man who wants to bring together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for an opera. (And you only thought it was about an Italian dance.) In so doing, he navigates a Peruvian river in order to harvest its rubber trees, goading a group of Indians into lifting his steamboat over the mountains. If there's a point to this, it's what Herzog's point always is: That obsession can drive you nuts. I'm not sure I needed a freaky German traipsing through the jungle for 2 1/2 hours to drive that point home, but there you have it. The contraption built to hault the boat over the mountains, however, is quite an astonishing thing to behold. more...
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