Cave of Forgotten Dreams

“A journey to prehistory that's simultaneously wondrous and tedious, profound and completely nuts -- which is to say, quintessential Herzog.”~NPR

Aroview: Although intended to be viewed in 3-D, this extraordinary trip inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France – home to the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind – retains both the power and reverence of the cinema experience at home.

Thanks largely to Herzog’s serio-comic inquisition and endless fascination with scientists and explorers, the documentary captivates as a history of the dawn of mankind through the obsession of its archeological gatekeepers. The caves themselves are the star attraction though, filmed in lengthy, lyrical passages befitting of the surrealist mode that Herzog’s cinema so often drifts into.

NZ International Film Festival 2011