Review of Encounters at the End of the World (2007) by Jeremy S — 08 Dec 2007
Herzog's docs can usually be boiled down to key moments. In the case of Encounters, it's the shot of a lonely penguin waddling off to certain death amid a vast Antarctic wasteland and Herzog's dry narration that no force on earth could turn this animal around.
In that moment is the image of the perfect Herzog protagonist: focused, barking-mad and fatally doomed. Encounters is in every way the anti-"March of the Penguins" that Herzog described when he introduced the film at the TIFF premiere.
A minor work for Herzog but a remarkable doc nonetheless.
This review of Encounters at the End of the World (2007) was written by Jeremy S on 08 Dec 2007.
Encounters at the End of the World has generally received very positive reviews.
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