Not to dismiss the rest of the German New Wave, but when Wim Wenders
and Rainer Werner Fassbinder were entrenched in various cities, Werner Herzog
was running around the Peruvian Rainforest with as much the same budget and
equipment. Herzog’s concern was looking long into our own personal abyss(es),
as further explored in the beautifully haunting score by Popol Vuh, which takes
the spirit to places it might never have explored otherwise. Topping that, you
have the incomparable Klaus Kinski in his greatest screen role, mesmerizing and
maniacal as in the title role. Cinema at it’s best.
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