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This is the somewhat talked about documentary by Werner Herzog. It’s marketed as a “magical” and “enchanting” exploration of some ancient French caves.
I found it to take a very interesting subject, and make it crushingly boring. Take out the trite philosophical commentaries, the jarring music, and the seemingly unrelated sections on a Perfumer and albino crocodiles, and you’ve got a low budget Channel 5 documentary which would have overstayed it’s welcome at 30 minutes long.
The positive reviews of this documentary are puzzling to say the least, interesting topic to be sure, but utterly dreadful film. Repetitive to extremes, and almost entirely lacking in actual information, Herzog focuses on psuedo-intellectual bullshit to convince us he has made an important piece of work. He hasn’t.
The BBC makes better documentaries than this without even trying.
