
The New York Times
It's a stunning spectacle, an adventure-comedy not quite like any other, and the most benign movie ever made about 19th-century capitalism running amok.
Full reviewWerner Herzog's Palme d'Or-nominated, two-and-a-half hour adventure drama about a man who will stop at nothing to build an opera house in the middle of the jungle. To do this, he must put a unique plan into action. First, he needs to make a fortune. Then, he must somehow get a huge, fancy river boat across a small mountain.
It's a stunning spectacle, an adventure-comedy not quite like any other, and the most benign movie ever made about 19th-century capitalism running amok.
Full reviewFitzcarraldo is a more objective record of a comparable fever dream, and as such is the preeminent testament of Herzog's labor as a filmmaker.
Full reviewHerzog charts an ironically circular course around an indulged, benevolent Aguirre; perversely illuminates colonialism with surrealism; and demonstrates once again in his always suspect yet somehow irresistible way that 'only dreamers move mountains'.
Full reviewThe latest production from German director Werner Herzog appears to be an advanced case of directorial self-absorption and self-glorification.
Full reviewAs a document of a quest and a dream, and as the record of man's audacity and foolish, visionary heroism, there has never been another movie like it.
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