Review of Burden of Dreams (1982) by Jens T — 13 May 2011
Les Blank's Burden of Dreams is the documentary about the german filmmaker Werner Herzog's incredible journey into the amazon jungle to film his masterpiece Fitzcarraldo. A hard, dangerous and difficult journey, a fight against goverments, against cast and crew and against time.
Blank try to focusing much on the native indians who's language and culture is near extinction thanks to a globalizing world, more precisely Americanization, and they are not careful to show us all the coca-cola bilboards and Mickey Mouse T-shirts as a sympol of exactly that.
Werner Herzog let himself be interview without any problems and expresses his opinion in front of the camera extreamly good. His not only a filmmaker, but also a poet, a realistic one. The one thing I did surley missed was Herzog's struggel with Klaus Kinksi, he seemed perfectly sane, more sane that Herzog.
But that's another documentary called My Best Fiend. Overall this is a great documentary in honor of the dying native people of the amazons, but it isn't great because of the lack of Kinski.
This review of Burden of Dreams (1982) was written by Jens T on 13 May 2011.
Burden of Dreams has generally received very positive reviews.
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