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04/23/09
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.
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... [More]
Director: Werner Herzog
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Reviews for Encounters At the End of the World
After the brilliantly original The White Diamond and The Wild Blue Yonder presented unusual professions and exotic outposts where individuals leave conventional society to express their aberrant instincts, the intrepid Herzog has finally hit a rut.
06/18/08
The whole movie felt like one of those films that I had to watch in Science class, and fell asleep to.
10/08/08
Gosh, Werner Herzog, would you like a little movie to go with your 99-minute, rambling lecture on Antarctica?
07/11/08
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.
04/28/09
Using magnificent underwater footage shot by someone else, Werner Herzog creates fascinating travelogue that takes us to wonderous and remote Antarctica, a place few humans have visited. But, surrounded by natures majesty and mysteries, all Herzog really
04/03/09
Herzog appears to have no serious intent in his new documentary Encounters at the End of the World. Instead, the film seems only one more step on Herzog's path to living oddity.
06/12/08
Attempting to be too many things at once, it is ultimately not a satisfying story about humanity, nor does it truly capture the mysterious natural world of Antarctica.
07/30/08
The film is beautifully shot both under the ice, where creatures roam in a place that would rival any sci-fi horror.
04/24/09
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.
04/24/09
As fans of his work know, Herzog has always had more than a smidge of charlatan in him. But rather than act as if he doesn’t, Herzog embraces this aspect of his personality in his films.
07/29/08
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10/18/08
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.
04/24/09
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.
04/25/09
This mystical, cynical, hypocritical elegy is his return to the deep after his somnolent The Wild Blue Yonder, and like it, plunges into the unique territory of Herzog's mind
06/19/08
This is Herzog in awe at life, the universe, eternity itself.
04/24/09
So the earnest seriousness that can make Herzog almost comical at times it is also the quality that allows him to paint a sincere portrait of these eccentric souls without a hint of mockery.
07/04/08
This is Werner Herzog at his best -- a cynic with a big heart, and a nasty wit.
07/12/08
The marketing tagline suggests we "Go Somewhere Cool". As long as we can go with Herzog, the latter part of that sentiment is a guarantee.
12/12/08
If you just have to see another Antarctica documentary, you could do worse than Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World.
06/27/08
Latest News for Encounters At the End of the World
February 16, 2009:
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Werner Herzog has a reputation for populating his documentaries with larger-than-life personalities, but according to the director, it's never planned that way -- the stories he... More...
July 06, 2008:
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July 01, 2008:
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March 13, 2008:
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Throughout his career, Werner Herzog has shown a fascination with protagonists in impossible situations. For his latest film, he took his cameras to what might be the most... More...
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