FITZCARRALDO DIRECTED BY WERNER HERZOG
WOW!I would like to say that I actually had a spiritual experience watching this film. Although I am quite a fan of Werner Herzog, because of his epic vision, blow your mind cinematography and exotic locales, I had not seen this one until recently. I also love, love, love the actor Klaus Kinski, but was prepared for another manic, insane performance the likes of Aguirre, the Wrath of God, where Kinski will be forever remembered for the ending scene of that film, standing on the doomed raft in the Peruvian jungle. But I digress; when I really caught on to who his character was in Fitzcarraldo, I was mesmerized by his eyes seeing the jungle and Native Indians, as if he had landed on another planet. In this film, he is an obsessed lover of Opera who has a dream to build an opera house in Peru. To realize this dream, he purchases an old beat up boat with the help of his lover, Claudia Cardinale, who shines with a luminous beauty while gliding past ramshackle huts by the river dressed in white lace. She owns a brothel and is well connected, but her friends laugh at the dream of Fitzcarraldo. After he refurbishes his boat and takes off down the Amazon, they enter a different world, and after enlisting the help of Native Peruvians, they attempt to lift the huge boat up over a mountain top. Fitzcarraldo's voyage of the soul, wanting one thing and ending with something else much better, made me cry, then laugh. This film truly has everything, including a surprise twist at the end, which makes the interlopers realize that they are not "in charge" after all! The DVD can be viewed in English or German, and also with narrative by Werner Herzog, who is very lucky that Klaus stayed around to complete this role. Kudos...Read full review
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