Synopsis
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.
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Cast
- Timothy TreadwellSelf (archive footage)
- Kathleen ParkerSelf
- Warren QueeneySelf
- Willy FultonSelf
- Sam EgliSelf
- Werner HerzogSelf
- David LettermanSelf
- Jewel PalovakSelf
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
Brilliant, poetic, and utterly unique. - 100
Premiere
Herzog not only tells an incredible story but implies a dark metaphysic of the natural world that makes this film unsettlingly larger than its human subject. - 100
The New Yorker
A brilliant documentary about an American saint and fool--a man who understands everything about nature except death. - 100
Variety
A brilliant portrait of adventure, activism, obsession and potential madness that ranks among helmer Werner Herzog's strongest work. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
A mesmerizing work of disturbing power and unease. - 90
Village Voice
For many the question remains about how Treadwell's eventual death should be regarded--as a tragedy, as a fool's fate, or as comeuppance for daring to humanize wild predators and habituating them to human presence. Herzog's perspective is, of course, scrupulously nonjudgmental. - 88
Rolling Stone
Herzog conducts his own expedition into knowing the unknowable -- the true task of any filmmaker. Herzog makes it an art. - 88
ReelViews
Actually three movies in one: a wildlife film about how grizzly bears behave in their natural habitat, a character study of an eccentric environmentalist, and a chilling, voyeuristic narrative of how death stalks that man.
