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06/03/05
My Best Fiend (1999)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:18
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Werner Herzog directed this documentary about the puzzling relationship between himself and actor Klaus Kinski. Beginning with their apocalyptic first meeting at age 13 and continuing through... [More]
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Reviews for My Best Fiend
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10/09/05
Herzog reveals the genius and madness of his best fiend Klaus Kinski.
12/05/05
Klaus Kinski was one helluva showman, and no filmmaker was better able to capture the explosive talent of his favourite fiend than the director of this fine documentary, Warner Herzog.
02/14/01
A genuine love/hate portrait of Kinski that acknowledges his acting talent but doesn't hesitate to capture his notorious behavior.
01/01/00
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06/11/05
While My Best Fiend -- does a splendid job of chronicling the high drama and creative pinnacles of their work together, it emphasizes the most public and bleakly amusing aspects of their story.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe film does become a fascinating portrait of the talented but mercurial Kinski.
01/01/00
Herzog's and Kinski's collaboration was one of the strongest in cinema, and the movie does justice to that energy.
05/26/06
The pairing of the director and actor invariably resulted in extraordinary creative collaborations. These men -- arrogant, ambitious, sadistic, fanatical, and in Kinski's case, probably insane -- certainly deserved each other.
11/12/02
A thoughtful and clever examination by the director of his longstanding friendship and creative partnership with the late Klaus Kinski.
10/26/07
Herzog's portrait of his friend is as mad as his films, and as fascinating.
01/01/00
Kinski wasn’t the wrath of God, but he was a damn fine actor, and this documentary so entranced and informed me, that I plan on going out and seeing every one of his films again.
01/21/02
With generous clips from Herzog and Kinski's collaborations, My Best Fiend is one of the great portraits of artists fighting, even with murderous rage, to reach the sublime.
01/01/00
Top CriticKinski's egomania is offered up by a quote of his that the only interesting landscape on earth is that of the human face.
04/09/05
Fiend is more often a self-congratulatory showcase for the films of Werner Herzog than a satisfying exploration of artistic collaboration and personal dysfunction.
01/01/00
My Best Fiend is about two men who both wanted to be dominant, who both had all the answers, who were inseparably bound together in love and hate, and who created extraordinary work -- while all the time each resented the other's contribution.
01/01/00
Top CriticMein Liebster Feind is a tentative exploration of the borders of friendship, madness, and genius.
01/01/00
Even if the guy is the German Marlon Brando, it's hard to sit munching your popcorn as he continually berates his fellow actors.
01/01/00
As documentaries go, this one is second-rate, consisting of almost nothing but Herzog sitting in locations at which he and Kinski once filmed and reminiscing.
02/14/01
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