Cave of Forgotten Dreams Reviews
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Another lovely stanza in the epic poem of humanity that Herzog has been writing for half a century.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Uruguay Total
Es indudable la capacidad del director por intentar, a través de la cámara, lo mismo que intentaron aquellos hombres y mujeres del Paleolítico unos 30.000 años atrás: comunicarse, expresar sentimientos y emociones, crear belleza.
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| Original Score: 4/5
MSN.com
... captures the space, the texture, the quality of color of these ghost-like paintings, like shadows of the past captured on the cave walls.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Confirmation, if any was needed, that culture and civilization existed 25,000 years ago and that we have gone downhill since the introduction of private property.
Looking Closer
These images of what the world was increase my sense of awe at what the world is.
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| Original Score: B
Matt's Movie Reviews
Werner Herzog's exploration of the miraculous Chauvel Cave comes with it evidence that human kind is indeed wired to believe in the hypnotic and poignant Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
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| Original Score: 4/5
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is one of Herzog's most memorable films. Its subject, the 32,000-year-old drawings on the wall of the Chauvet Cave in southern France, is so astonishing that even Herzog's amiable sidetracks can't destroy the wonder.
Herald Sun (Australia)
There is nothing gimmicky about Herzog's use of 3D in Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The depth of field afforded by the 3D format gives the viewer an uncanny spatial awareness of the site.
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| Original Score: 4/5
At the Movies (Australia)
Herzog has used the 3D process with tremendous creativity to make this very beautiful film.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sydney Morning Herald
This is what 3-D was made for, puncturing the proscenium and taking us somewhere ''not yet offended''.
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| Original Score: 4/5
FILMINK (Australia)
Making superb use of the 3-D, and marked by Werner Herzog's idiosyncratic sensibilities, this contains enough captivating moments to make it a must-see.
Urban Cinefile
What is astonishing about the (32,000 year old) drawings discovered in the Chauvet Caves ... in southern France is that they look much like the drawings of competent contemporary art students
Quickflix
It's hard not to think of Han Solo's neck unnaturally shifting to dodge a CG bullet as French archaeologists gape in awe at the beautiful untouched works created by Homo sapiens past
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
To puzzle over these questions with Herzog makes for a singular and rapturous viewing experience.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Cinema Autopsy
This nature and art documentary by Werner Herzog delivers an astonishingly privileged look at a subterranean time capsule.
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| Original Score: 4/5
tonymacklin.net
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 30,000-year leap of faith. Werner Herzog, after tiptoeing through the transforming cave, says, "Nothing is real. Nothing is certain." As an artist, he seems to like it that way.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...might have been a worthy film at 60 minutes long, but then it wouldn't have been a Herzog film. The difference is the difference between a film about art, and a film that is art.
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| Original Score: 89/100
Jam! Movies
What you see in the film is awe-inspiring.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Top CriticIt is our tour guide that makes Cave of Forgotten Dreams an often thrilling experience.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
NOW Toronto
A hypnotic documentary that brings the incredible walls of the Chauvet Pont d'Arc cave to us as if we were standing 4 feet away from them.
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| Original Score: 4/5
