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Zion 2022-08-15 10:23:51
The beauty of the murals and sculptures is the first time I can use suffocation to...
Cave of Forgotten Dreams Comments
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Jose 2022-08-15 19:35:19
Cave dreams
The cave is under the close care of the French government, and the public is completely forbidden to enter it. Herzog and the others got special permission from the French Ministry of Culture to enter, but they are also under strict control: they must wear specific clothes and shoes, cannot...
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Janie 2022-08-15 21:29:47
Expansion piece
Structurally speaking, like all Herzog documentaries, it is extremely boring.
This cave was discovered 20 years ago in the Ardèche province in southern France. It must be approved by the French Ministry of Culture to enter the cave. The metal trail is well done, and the natural stalagmites are all...
Cave of Forgotten Dreams quotes
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Nicholas Conard: I think what's extremely important is that we realize that archeology today is not a heroic adventure with spades and picks, but high tech scientific work that's done with incredible detail.
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Werner Herzog: Crocodiles have been introduced into this brooding jungle and warmed by the water to cool the reactor, man do they thrive. There are already hundreds of them. Not surprisingly, mutant albinos swim and breed in these waters. A thought is born of this surreal environment. Not long ago, just a few thousand years back, there were glaciers here 9,000 feet thick. And now a new climate is steaming and spreading. Fairly soon, these albinos might reach Chauvet caves. Looking at the paintings, what will they make of them? Nothing is real. Nothing is certain. It is hard to determine whether these creatures are dividing into their own doppelgangers and do they really meet or is it just their own imagining mirror reflection? Are we today the crocodiles who look back into the abyss of time when we see the paintings of Chauvet cave?
Director: Werner Herzog
Language: English,German,French Release date: August 31, 2011