Review of Fitzcarraldo (1982) by Elliott Stein for Film Comment Magazine — 11 Dec 2017
This botched, shapeless, gratuitous, ignoble, neo-colonialist film is so poorly made, written, edited, and directed that its centerpiece, its raison d'être -- the honest-to-God hauling of a boat up a mountain before your eyes -- is meaningless.
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This review of Fitzcarraldo (1982) was written by Elliott Stein and published by Film Comment Magazine on 11 Dec 2017.
Fitzcarraldo has generally received very positive reviews.
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