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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Directed by
Werner Herzog
G
2010
90m
Documentary
,
History
,
and more
7.4
96%
73%
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Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.
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Cast of Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog
Narrator (voice) / Director / Writer
Dominique Baffier
Self
Jean Clottes
Self
Jean-Michel Geneste
Self
Michel Philippe
Self
Gilles Tosello
Self
Carole Fritz
Self
Maria Malina
Self
Nicholas Conard
Self
Valerie Feruglio
Self
Wulf Hein
Self
Maurice Maurin
Self
Valeria Milenka Repnau
Self (voice)
Charles Fathy
Interpreter (voice) (uncredited)
Volker Schlöndorff
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Judith Thurman
Writer
Julian Hobbs
Producer
Adrienne Ciuffo
Producer
Dave Harding
Producer
Erik Nelson
Producer
David McKillop
Producer
Cave of Forgotten Dreams Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Herzog's glimpses of the future can be as otherworldly and singular as his perspective on the past.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
To call "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" a great movie isn't just an understatement, it's a wildly inaccurate way to describe an experience that, in its immersive sensory pleasures and climactic journey of discovery, more closely resembles an ecstatic trance.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
This is something more than a movie; it's a testament - and re-creation - of rapture.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Art history lessons don't get much better: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" presents the world's oldest paintings captured by one of film's great visionaries.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
What we get from this film: a specific and personal sense that 32,000-year-old artists, with all their ideas and passions, were not, fundamentally, that different from us.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
We're never going to be allowed in this place, so thanks, Werner, for inviting us along.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
What we come to love about Herzog's documentary is Herzog's love itself.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Herzog's voiceover is, as always, more entertaining than most film soundtracks. The film has a touch of that gray fuzz which still afflicts 3-D, but the Chauvet cave is a perfect candidate for such technology, because it stashes its secrets in a recess.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Herzog is reaching for ways to comprehend what he imagines to be the emblems of the birth of the modern soul.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
While the handheld 3D did at times make me a little queasy, over all using this method to bring the Chauvet Cave to life adds another layer of detail the movie would not have achieved otherwise.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
Calling Werner Herzog's latest film a documentary is both a misstatement and an understatement. Like Grizzly Man and Conversations at the End of the World, it filters its raw material through the prism of Herzog's...
NPR
Jeannette Catsoulis
The result is a journey to prehistory that's simultaneously wondrous and tedious, profound and completely nuts -- which is to say, quintessential Herzog.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Working with extremely limited lighting, Herzog not only gives a sense of the caves as a sinuous, tactile environment, but focuses on the movement suggested by the paintings.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Director Werner Herzog's latest cinematic mind trip blows you away with its beauty, though not necessarily due to its exquisite use of 3-D.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The unknowable or the mysteriously ambiguous in human behavior is what sets Mr. Herzog's synapses to firing with singular intensity.
Slate
Dana Stevens
If you're interested in the history of the human race -- if you're a member of the human race -- you owe it to yourself to see this movie.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The director is excellent at contextualizing these venerable wall paintings, at discussing them with a variety of scientists in a way that allows us to think about them with a perspective we otherwise might not have.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
What a gift Werner Herzog offers with "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," an inside look at the astonishing Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc - and in 3-D too.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Has much to recommend it: Herzog's half off-the-wall/half-profound queries, a delightfully unexpected coda on albino alligators, a single scene on ancient weapons that alone justifies the 3-D process, and the opportunity to see what so few have seen.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Doesn't bring 3-D to dazzling new heights. Instead, it uses this relatively new technology to burrow a little deeper, both literally and figuratively, into history - into the nature of mankind, even.
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