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Les Blank's "Burden of Dreams" is one of the most remarkable documentaries ever made about the making of a movie. There are at least two reasons for that. One is that the movie being made, Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo," involved some of the most torturous and dangerous on-location shooting experiences in film history.
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The story of the making of "Fitzcarraldo" is told in "Burden...
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89% Tomatometer 18 Reviews 91% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings German director Werner Herzog begins work on his 1982 epic "Fitzcarraldo" but soon runs into serious setbacks, from casting...
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- Claudia Cardinale, Mick Jagger, Klaus Kinski
- Les Blank
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A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Burden of Dreams has an approval rating of 89%, based on reviews from 18 critics, with an average score of 8.7/10. Roger Ebert awarded the film four out of four stars, writing that "Blank...is unafraid to ask difficult questions and portray Herzog, warts and all".
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 30, 2005. Christopher Null Filmcritic.com. Strangely, Burden of Dreams is a better film than Fitzcarraldo, if only because you get to see the fictional...
Burden of Dreams has a more lighthearted tone, even though Herzog is out in the middle of nowhere again. The documentary is difficult to put into words as there is no actual plot. It simply focuses on Werner's attempts to film a movie of his (Fitzcarraldo) in the jungles of Peru.
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Sep 10, 2012 · Burden of Dreams 1982, directed by Les Blank | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Blank's special brand of ethnographic film documentary finds a curiously appropriate subject in that weirdest of...
