cThe film will continue its tour in theaters until January which, in an era that gives birth to mice and qualifies everything as an “event”, really was.
On the contrary, Fitzcarraldo, hymn to the impossiblewhich Werner Herzog shot, with his “closest enemy”, Klaus Kinski, in the Amazon forest, was a feat, a limit film, a hymn to stubbornness and to a way of making cinema that is unthinkable today.
Palme d’Or for Best Director at Cannes in ’82, its theatrical re-release 40 years later (and has been available on Blu-ray since mid-December) is not only an opportunity to see a masterpiece again, but also to confront the lucid madness of a cinema giant.
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