Fitzcarraldo (1982)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 18 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 37 mins
Synopsis: Director Werner Herzog returns to the exotic locales and obsessive themes of previous works in his Amazon masterpiece, FITZCARRALDO. Klaus Kinski gives a terrifying and determined portrayal of mad genius Fitzcarraldo, whose twin goals of making a fortune off the Amazon rubber trade and... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Claudia Cardinale, Miguel Angel Fuentes
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Werner Herzog sure has a soft spot for obsessive idealists engaged in hopelessly enormous tasks.
06/26/07
The film may have been intended as an ironic comment on the absurdity of human ambition, but it's an irony that explodes in Herzog's face.
02/09/07
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Awesome, hypnotic storytelling, Fitzcarraldo finds this director working in top form
08/24/06
If you have a dream, the only way to accomplish it is to face it head on. If your dream requires you to drag a massive boat up a mountainside, do it. So says director Werner Herzog in the bizarre but captivating Fitzcarraldo.
07/24/06
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01/26/06
As a document of a quest and a dream, and as the record of man's audacity and foolish, visionary heroism, there has never been another movie like it.
10/23/04
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If there's a point to this, it's what Herzog's point always is: That obsession can drive you nuts. I'm not sure I needed a freaky German traipsing through the jungle for 2 1/2 hours to drive that point home.
10/07/03
Fitzcarraldo is a more objective record of a comparable fever dream, and as such is the preeminent testament of Herzog’s labor as a filmmaker.
06/14/03
It's a stunning spectacle, an adventure-comedy not quite like any other, and the most benign movie ever made about 19th-century capitalism running amok.
05/20/03
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