Synopsis
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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Cast
- Werner HerzogNarrator (voice)
- Dominique BaffierSelf
- Jean ClottesSelf
- Jean-Michel GenesteSelf
- Michel PhilippeSelf
- Gilles ToselloSelf
- Carole FritzSelf
- Maria MalinaSelf
- Nicholas ConardSelf
- Valerie FeruglioSelf
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
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
The Hollywood Reporter
To call this movie fascinating is akin to calling the Grand Canyon large. - 90
Variety
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. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Spellbinding. - 80
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. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is sometimes frozen by Herzog's awe. But it's hard not to love him for always trying to look beyond the surface of things, to find a common chord in the landscape of dreams. - 80
Chicago Reader
The paintings are extraordinary and the 3-D cinematography invites the viewer to get lost in every brushstroke. This is one of the few films to use the format for intellectual, even philosophical ends: the added depth parallels the deeper understanding of humanity that the paintings inspire. - 70
Boxoffice Magazine
With his (Herzog) idiosyncratic blend of serendipity, bluntness and mischievous irony, he's able to get at deep questions like no other documentarian.
