Movie Reviews
Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer review: Collaborators and admirers examine a unique artistic temperament
Light House; Club Cert
Visionary filmmaker Werner Herzog is the subject of the documentary ‘Radical Dreamer’
Between his cold Teutonic enunciation, hooded eyes, and fondness for a bit of torture on set, German cinema icon Werner Herzog is that rarest of things – a filmmaker whose cult of personality almost transcends the actual output itself. Almost.
Better known in recent times as one of the most brilliant documentarians in the game (ssee Grizzly Man or Cave of Forgotten Dreams), Herzog of course cut his teeth with historical dramas such as Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) that were not only astonishingly arduous to shoot, but ambitious on a scale that makes them virtually impossible to ever emulate.