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.
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06/12/08
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
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
There are many moments in the film where [Herzog's] essential liveliness breaks the wall of fatalism that he seems obliged to construct.
07/19/08
Herzog, contemporary cinema's most consistently lyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returns to the documentary form in yet another wonderfully improbable locale: Antarctica, the literal bottom of the world.
07/18/08
The film plays a little like an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, except with scientists instead of cooks, though the low-stakes travelogue format allows for plenty of surprises and fun along the way.
06/12/08
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04/23/09
Nature at its most mysterious, brutal and implacable - just as Herzog likes it.
04/24/09
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.
07/11/08
Top CriticWerner 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.
07/10/08
Top CriticA supremely cranky and lyrical feat.
06/13/08
Unique, striking.
06/26/08
Caustically enchanting
08/26/09
"Encounters at the End of the World," is an adventure documentary where our perception of nature's fierce beauty is filtered through Herzog's mad-genius mind.
06/13/08
The best thing about Herzog's films is that he follows his instincts and lets his curiosity lead him to the next sequence.
06/12/08
There's something highly entertaining, kind of hilarious and almost endearing about director Werner Herzog's insistence on reacting to each new revelation in his documentary films with a pronouncement of doom...
08/12/08
South Pole documentary is gorgeous, if a bit dry.
06/10/08
There's nothing barren about Werner Herzog's landscape.
05/29/08
This is Werner Herzog at his best -- a cynic with a big heart, and a nasty wit.
07/12/08
Almost every film Werner Herzog makes is savage and incisive. Encounters at the End of the World, far-out and unforgettable.
04/24/09
The underwater sequences are breathtaking and ethereal.
07/24/08
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