Film: Also Showing AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD WERNER HERZOG (PG): A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES BAHMAN GHOBADI (PG)

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 17, 2001| Author: Anthony Quinn | Copyright information

FIRST RELEASED in 1972, Aguirre, Wrath of God (pictured right) is a quest movie of almost unparalleled strangeness. From the beautiful opening sequence - a panorama of conquistadors descending the mist- shrouded peaks of the Andes - one feels in the presence of an inspirational and slightly unbalanced film-maker. The director Werner Herzog uses history as a vehicle, but loads it so extravagantly with satire and metaphor and madness that he pops its tyres.

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