White Diamond, The
Germany 2004, 88 minutes
Dir. Werner Herzog
Genres: Documentary
Topics: Eco-friendly.
Aroview: Werner Herzog finds another slightly insane alter-ego for himself in Dr Graham Dorrington, here documenting the engineer's wild ambition to explore South America's rainforests by gliding over their canopies in a custom-made blimp.
As with GRIZZLY MAN and his own perilous FITZCARRALDO, Herzog lyrically captures the fine line between grand vision and epic delusion, the promise of new frontiers, and the overwhelming burden of dreams. Herzog himself is one of cinema's great dreamers, daring to imagine the feat of Dorrington's arm-wrestle with nature (not to mention gravity), while wallowing in the extraordinary beauty of his quest through some mythic, awe-inspiring Amazonian footage.
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3 stars (Good Enough) Even a so-so Herzog doc is good. Here we get: a jungle, a waterfall, an intense inventor, a tragedy, weird locals, a rooster, breakdancing, 1,000,000 swifts (!) and an airship. The sort of film where you put it on & it just kind of happens at you. ~Toby Dammit
Close Relatives
- Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
- Burden of Dreams (1982)
- Deep Water (2006)
- Grizzly Man (2005)
- Big River Man (2009)
- Fitzcarraldo (1982)
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