Werner Herzog, Ryan Andrew Evans
Welcome to Antarctica – like you’ve never experienced it. You’ve seen the extraordinary marine life, the retreating glaciers and, of course, the penguins, but leave it to award-winning iconoclastic fi...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
Stats: 798 reviews
Encounters at the End of the World is more a study of people rather than a documentary about Antarctica. Typically it's visually stunning and avoids any kind of cliché, this is not another film about Penguins! (Although suicidal gay penguins do get a mention). A must for Herzog/D...( read more)
Given Herzog's pedigree, a rather disappointingly plodding doc with overly intrusive music which revels in dull eccentrics.
it's not another film about penguins. it's a most unusual look at the bizarre land at the bottom of the world and the vagabond dreamers who end up there. much of the film is deeply moving. herzog has a poetic way with such material
Overall pretty disappointed with this film. A lot of points just seemed really try-hard. A lot of the accompanying music seemed intrusive, especially during the dive scene where it was downright annoying. The director commentary was also rather unnecessary and not very insightful...( read more)
Existential angst gets a huge power-up thanks to Herzog's cranky eye. Fears and sorrows previously limited to mere individuals now apply equally to whole civilizations, species, planets, Gods and universes.
Killer beauty movie.
The film starts with intense music. The feel it gives to the film is very gothic. The volume is maximized that adds that same creepiness throughout the whole film. It?s very breathtaking how long shots are done underwater. The color is vivid that makes you want to capture every s...( read more)
Werner Herzog's fascinating, absorbing and visually stunning documentary is a feast for the eyes and the mind.
How amazing is Werner Herzog? Really! I didn't catch that when I should have a couple of years ago, but I was lucky to see this on the silver screen where it belongs- at a screening in TIFF (Thessaloniki International Film Festival) where this year Herzog was invited and a retros...( read more)
The sky is relentlessly blue, the sun bright even in the thick of night. In this odd and unforgettable place, Herzog has made his own poetry. full review
[Herzog is] a filmmaker ideally suited to recognize and celebrate...deep irony. full review
A poem of oddness and beauty. Herzog is like no other filmmaker, and to return to him is to be welcomed into a world vastly larger and more peculiar than the one around us. The underwater photography ... full review
After the brilliantly original The White Diamond and The Wild Blue Yonder presented unusual professions and exotic outposts where individuals leave conventional society to express their aberrant insti... full review
Herzog appears to have no serious intent in his new documentary Encounters at the End of the World. Instead, the film seems only one more step on Herzog's path to living oddity. full review
Midway through, an eerier theme creeps in, all the more powerful for Herzog's lack of insistence. By the 'end of the world' he means the end of the world. full review
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