Encounters At the End of the World
Werner Herzog
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Plot Summary
Welcome to Antarctica - like you've never experienced it. You've seen the extraordinary marine life, the retreating glaciers and, of course, the penguins, but leave it to award-winning, iconoclastic filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) to be the first to explore the South Pole's most fascinating inhabitants...humans. In this one-of-kind documentary, Herzog turns his camera on a group of remarkable individuals, "professional dreamers" who work, play and struggle to survive in a harsh landscape of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty - perhaps the last frontier on earth.
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TOMATOMETER
94%- Reviews Counted: 108
- Fresh: 101
- Rotten: 7
- Average Rating: 7.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Herzog is one of a kind. His new doc is an event you watch in awe as you marvel at its wonders.
Fresh: Werner Herzog is a magnet for obsessives, and his lovely new film, Encounters at the End of the World, takes you places an ordinary filmmaker might've gone to yet missed completely.
Fresh: A poem of oddness and beauty. Herzog is like no other filmmaker, and to return to him is to be welcomed into a world vastly larger and more peculiar than the one around us. The underwater photography alone would make a film, but there is so much more.
Fresh: A contrarian spiritual journey as provocative as it is hypnotic, Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World literally treks to planet's end.
Customer Reviews
Unimpressive To Say The Least
No real plot and the wildlife shots were very unspectacular. Even the human stories were interrupted by Herzog which made me want to turn it off and watch commercials, but since I don't have cable, satellite or television I continued watching. I'm still left wondering if the volcanist's generator ever started. Why no footage of the leopard seal? Why so negative Werner? Are you that upset that Ebert is dead? Rent it if you must, but don't buy this drabby film.
Fresh perspective
The perspective of this film is a breath of fresh air. The people in the interviews are full of surprises and it makes you wonder how so many of the realest people have ended up in Antarctica. The landscapes are majestic and the view of animals was fascinating. I recommend this film to anyone with an open mind and curiosity.
a good arctic movie
shows not only the antarctica but a true human experience and shows mankind in a pure state not only by it location but its action of simply living. a good movie, if you like planet earth series you will like this.
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