Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
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Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
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91
This truly intimate film invites viewers to commune as well and feel a profound living connection with fellow humans of 30,000 years ago.
90
To call this movie fascinating is akin to calling the Grand Canyon large.
90
Filtering the world's oldest paintings through the latest in cinematic technology, Werner Herzog delivers a one-of-a-kind art-history lesson in Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
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Spellbinding.
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Empire
A typically quixotic documentary in which great unknown artists from 35,000 years ago collaborate with one in 2011. Profound, mysterious and utterly absorbing.
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