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Encounters At the End of the World

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Encounters At the End of the World (2007)

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Reviews Counted:100

Fresh:93

Rotten:7

Average Rating:7.5/10

Consensus: Encounters at the End of the World offers a poignant study of the human psyche amid haunting landscapes.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Jun 11, 2008 Limited

Box Office: $723,966

Synopsis: Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters at the End of the World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog... Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters at the End of the World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer (Oct-Feb). Over the course of his journey, Herzog examines human nature and Mother nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal, and sometimes absurd experiences of the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers who choose to form a society as far away from society as one can get. --© ThinkFilm [More]

Director: Werner Herzog

Director: Werner Herzog
Screenwriter: Werner Herzog
Producer: Henry Kaiser
Composer: Henry Kaiser, David Lindley
Studio: ThinkFilm

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Jun 23, 2009

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The footage is breathtaking. We also are privileged to watch seals feeding their young, but the revelations about penguin 'prostitutes' are perhaps the film's most extraordinary. Gay penguins? Insane penguins?

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
09/10/09
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile

Caustically enchanting

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
08/26/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

...May not have the shock and drive of Grizzly Man, but it's a poignant and even haunting work nonetheless

Full Review Source: GreenCine | comment Comment
07/30/09
Craig Phillips
Craig Phillips
GreenCine

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
05/13/09
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

This documentary about life in and around a vast scientific research centre in Antarctica. None of these meetings, however, is as interesting as the interspersed footage of the pole’s natural wonders.

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment Comment
04/28/09
Edward Porter
Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)

His best film for years.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
04/28/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

This Oscar-nominated gem reveals far more than the traditional documentary by coming at the subject from an unexpected angle to reveal a myriad of unvarnished truths.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
04/25/09
Tim Surette
Tim Surette
Sky Movies

Too loose and aimless to sit with Herzog’s best, Encounters drifts along on its filmmaker’s frostbitten humour and his ever-searching eye for weirdness and wonder.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
04/25/09
Jonathan Crocker
Jonathan Crocker
Total Film

Herzog is baffled, amused and fascinated by them all, exults in their palpable strangeness, draws us deep into their unique world and, via Henry Kaiser’s extraordinary underwater photography, what looms often unnervingly beneath it.

Full Review Source: Uncut Magazine [UK] | comment Comment
04/25/09
Allan Jones
Allan Jones
Uncut Magazine [UK]

Nature at its most mysterious, brutal and implacable - just as Herzog likes it.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/24/09
Leigh Singer
Leigh Singer
Channel 4 Film

Seemingly off-hand, cumulatively imposing, utterly masterful.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
04/24/09
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Time Out

As a nature doc alone, Encounters at the End of the World would stand as one of the year’s best. But it is the people who choose to live and work at the very ends of the Earth that are Herzog’s real subject.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
04/24/09
Dominic Wells
Dominic Wells
Times [UK]

It's a thoroughly intelligent, worthwhile and tremendous-looking film. But where is the dark spark of Herzog magic?

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
04/24/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

Almost every film Werner Herzog makes is savage and incisive. Encounters at the End of the World, far-out and unforgettable.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
04/24/09
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph

As a nature documentary it’s nothing special. But that was never the intent. As an observational study of people and place, it’s truly fascinating.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
04/24/09
Little White Lies

Mid-list Herzog, but still a stimulating, strange experience. And that tragically perverse penguin is the most memorable movie animal of the year.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/24/09
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

A compelling film that is by turns thought-provoking and very funny.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
04/24/09
Karl French
Karl French
Financial Times

This is Herzog in awe at life, the universe, eternity itself.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
04/24/09
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

The film is beautifully shot both under the ice, where creatures roam in a place that would rival any sci-fi horror.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
04/24/09
This is London

Fatalism is the dark theme running through this otherwise extremely entertaining film, which is just as interested in the many weird and wonderful people who have made the Antarctic their home.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
04/24/09
Alistair Harkness
Alistair Harkness
Scotsman
 
 
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