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02/09/06
The White Diamond (2005)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 17 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.7/10
Rated: 15
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: 16-10-2007
Synopsis: Werner Herzog has a taste for absurd personal missions, especially those involving a human struggle against nature. From characters like Aguirre--the Spaniard who searches for a hidden city of gold in Peru, to Fitzcarraldo--who wants to build an opera house in the Amazon rain forest,... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
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1 - 20 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
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08/16/07
Herzog illustrates through both Dorrington and the Rastafarian the wonder of simply being human.
03/01/07
The film is one small story and how it can be presented and interpreted to mean so much, giving significance to a more introspective definition of triumph.
07/06/06
A superb portrait of the dangers as well as euphoria that can come from chasing one's most treasured dreams.
11/29/05
Herzog loves to document humanity's perpetual struggle with nature, and in The White Diamond, the jungle -- sometimes makes sophisticated human technology laughably clumsy.
09/26/05
Although The White Diamond is entire of itself, it earns its place among the other treasures and curiosities in Herzog's work.
09/01/05
Top Critic
When we finally see the ship sailing through majestic cloud formations over the breathtaking Amazon canopy, the name seems absolutely fitting -- for a gem of an aircraft and a jewel of a movie.
09/01/05
Herzog's eye for the weird sometimes makes the docu feel strained, but engaging characters imbue the pic with depth and emotional appeal.
09/01/05
Top Critic
A minor but often visually stunning meditation on nature and man's desire to conquer it.
07/08/05
Top Critic
An intoxicating dream of a film that speaks to the daydreamer in all of us.
06/03/05
The film is rather aimless, if not pointless, but you cannot take your eyes off it for one second.
06/03/05
In The White Diamond, man and nature barely rub against each other, and it's this friction that makes for the film's most astounding images.
06/03/05
Magnificent shots of waterfalls and other natural phenomena abound, but it's far too late in the history of nature photography to expect anyone to gawk at them.
06/01/05
Werner Herzog's documentary suggests that while the German filmmaker has mellowed a bit with age, he is still fascinated by the danger and romance of the natural world.
06/01/05
Top Critic
Werner Herzog may lack heroes, nowadays, who seem adequate to his fierce capacity for wonder. When occasion demands, however, he can still turn the world upside down.
05/31/05
Any day in which I'm able to step into the gaze path of extreme, globe-trotting seeker-of-otherworldliness Werner Herzog -- like a matinee dreamer transfixed in a projector's beam -- is a day well lived.
05/31/05
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