The footage is breathtaking. We also are privileged to watch seals feeding their young, but the revelations about penguin 'prostitutes' are perhaps the film's most extraordinary. Gay penguins? Insane penguins?
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09/10/09
Encounters At the End of the World (2007)
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Reviews Counted:100
Fresh:93
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Encounters at the End of the World offers a poignant study of the human psyche amid haunting landscapes.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $723,966
Synopsis: Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters at the End of the World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog... [More]
Director: Werner Herzog
Reviews for Encounters At the End of the World
Top CriticCaustically enchanting
08/26/09
...May not have the shock and drive of Grizzly Man, but it's a poignant and even haunting work nonetheless
07/30/09
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05/13/09
This documentary about life in and around a vast scientific research centre in Antarctica. None of these meetings, however, is as interesting as the interspersed footage of the pole’s natural wonders.
04/28/09
His best film for years.
04/28/09
This Oscar-nominated gem reveals far more than the traditional documentary by coming at the subject from an unexpected angle to reveal a myriad of unvarnished truths.
04/25/09
Too loose and aimless to sit with Herzog’s best, Encounters drifts along on its filmmaker’s frostbitten humour and his ever-searching eye for weirdness and wonder.
04/25/09
Herzog is baffled, amused and fascinated by them all, exults in their palpable strangeness, draws us deep into their unique world and, via Henry Kaiser’s extraordinary underwater photography, what looms often unnervingly beneath it.
04/25/09
Nature at its most mysterious, brutal and implacable - just as Herzog likes it.
04/24/09
Seemingly off-hand, cumulatively imposing, utterly masterful.
04/24/09
As a nature doc alone, Encounters at the End of the World would stand as one of the year’s best. But it is the people who choose to live and work at the very ends of the Earth that are Herzog’s real subject.
04/24/09
Top CriticIt's a thoroughly intelligent, worthwhile and tremendous-looking film. But where is the dark spark of Herzog magic?
04/24/09
Top CriticAlmost every film Werner Herzog makes is savage and incisive. Encounters at the End of the World, far-out and unforgettable.
04/24/09
As a nature documentary it’s nothing special. But that was never the intent. As an observational study of people and place, it’s truly fascinating.
04/24/09
Mid-list Herzog, but still a stimulating, strange experience. And that tragically perverse penguin is the most memorable movie animal of the year.
04/24/09
Top CriticA compelling film that is by turns thought-provoking and very funny.
04/24/09
This is Herzog in awe at life, the universe, eternity itself.
04/24/09
The film is beautifully shot both under the ice, where creatures roam in a place that would rival any sci-fi horror.
04/24/09
Fatalism is the dark theme running through this otherwise extremely entertaining film, which is just as interested in the many weird and wonderful people who have made the Antarctic their home.
04/24/09
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