The dazzling images speak eloquently for themselves, even without the director's witty deadpan voice-over.
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Encounters at the End of the World (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 57 Fresh: 54 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.7/10
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Encounters at the End of the World offers a poignant study of the human psyche amid haunting landscapes.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
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 travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Werner Herzog
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[Director Werner Herzog] gets an almost perverse pleasure out of staring into abysses...
07/25/08
Antarctica, it turns out, is the perfect setting for Herzog to find the themes that have fascinated him: The mercilessness of nature, and the foolhardiness of humans who would challenge nature.
07/24/08
In the documentary Encounters at the End of the World, there’s a twist that swiftly counters Herzog’s instincts: Mankind’s industrial supremacy has not excluded the South Pole.
07/24/08
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
This is Werner Herzog at his best -- a cynic with a big heart, and a nasty wit.
07/12/08
The sky is relentlessly blue, the sun bright even in the thick of night. In this odd and unforgettable place, Herzog has made his own poetry.
07/11/08
[Herzog is] a filmmaker ideally suited to recognize and celebrate...deep irony.
07/11/08
Gosh, Werner Herzog, would you like a little movie to go with your 99-minute, rambling lecture on Antarctica?
07/11/08
Seeing the movie becomes a method of understanding, of putting into perspective, our place and limited privilege on Earth.
07/11/08
A mesmerizing new documentary that contains some of the most stunning, unlikely and unforgettable moments that Herzog has ever given us and by definition, that means that they are some of the most stunning, unlikely and unforgettable moments ever seen.
07/11/08
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 Critic
... an engaging and generous profile of the fascinating folks who have chosen to live at the end of the world.
07/10/08
A contrarian spiritual journey as provocative as it is hypnotic, Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World literally treks to planet's end.
07/10/08
Werner 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
As far as this summer's movie doomsday prophecies go, Herzog's feels somehow strangely brighter and more upbeat than even Wall-E.
07/09/08
So the earnest seriousness that can make Herzog almost comical at times it is also the quality that allows him to paint a sincere portrait of these eccentric souls without a hint of mockery.
07/04/08
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