Cave of Forgotten Dreams G
Humanity's Lost Masterpiece... in 3D
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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 29, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Werner Herzog | |
Edited by | Joe Bini & Maya Hawke | |
Narrated by | Werner Herzog | |
Screenwriting by | Werner Herzog | |
Composition by | Ernst Reijseger | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Zeitlinger |
Entertainment Reviews:
Cave of Forgotten Dreams transports its audience into another world, on an intimate visit to France's Chauvet Cave, where only a handful of modern humans have ever been. It's one of the most significant 3-D films to ever hit the screen.
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Isthmus (Madison, WI)
Rating: 3/5 --
Herzog tells us, in his inimitable way, why we care about a bunch of old pictures of horses and lions.
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Washington Examiner
It's a privilege and a pleasure to be present in a sacred space where the human and the mystical effortlessly intertwine, and we are in Werner Herzog's debt for that great gift.
Los Angeles Times
Minor Herzog. Not until the final reel does it take flight the way his best pictures do.
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The Improper Bostonian
Rating: 8/10 --
Why shoot a documentary about cave paintings in 3D? Is Werner Herzog crazy? The answer to the second question has always been, "quite possibly," but the answer to the first becomes apparent the first time he trains his camera on the cave walls.
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DCist
Rating: 4/5 --
This is what 3-D was made for, puncturing the proscenium and taking us somewhere ''not yet offended''.
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Sydney Morning Herald
3.5 stars out of 4 -- Herzog's inspiration is to show us the paintings as the cave's original visitors must have seen them...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
In 1994, one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the decade came to light in a cave in Southern France, known as the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc: etchings estimated at around 30,000 years old. The date of origin made these some of the oldest remnants of humankind ever discovered. Unsurprisingly, these artistic remnants bore a precious fragility -- experts asserted that overexposure, even to elements as seemingly harmless as human breath, could severely damage or destroy the drawings. For that reason, few obtained access to this area. One exception arrived in the form of maverick German filmmaker Werner Herzog, who not only obtained permission to film (with lights that emit no heat) but did so in 3D -- a process that enabled him to convey the textured surfaces on which the figures are drawn, as well as the shape and depth of the cave's stalagmites and other structures. This astonishing 3D documentary not only provides exquisite visual detail of the cave (as Herzog explores it) but uses the visuals as a springboard to broader philosophical questions about the nature of humanity itself and the transience of humankind.
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