ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
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Werner Herzog has embedded his humorous logic and passionate speech patterns so deeply into his individual brand of cinema that his narrative and documentary films speak to us with a loving authority.
Such is the nature of his latest daredevil piece of filmmaking in which he travels to Antarctica's McMurdo scientific research station. Herzog investigates the unifying bond that connects the crew and scientists who work there under six months of never-ending daylight.
Here are an eccentric lot of personalities. There's a plumber descended from Aztec royalty — you can tell by his hands. The scientists love to sit around watching sci-fi horror movies from the '50s.
"Encounters at the End of the World," is just that — an adventure documentary where our perception of nature's fierce beauty and the people who co-exist there are filtered through Herzog's mad-genius mind and inexhaustible lust for life and danger.
The gorgeous undersea sequences are dazzling for their natural spectacle. If the film includes a bizarre tangent about penguin prostitution, it comes with a significant dose of organic truth. This is nature cinema with gusto. Damn you bet.
Rated G. 99 mins.
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