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Encounters at the End of The World

Documentary Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film.
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Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
"Herzog is a stranger in a strange land (...) his perverse curiosity and zest for the harshest extremes of nature transform what might have been a standard TV special into an idiosyncratic expression of wonder." POS
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The New York Times
The New York Times
"Like many of Mr. Herzog's movies, fiction and nonfiction, 'Encounters at the End of the World' itself has the quality of a dream: it's at once vivid and vague, easy to grasp and somehow beyond reach."  POS
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The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
"All this is as fascinating as it is humbling, even when Herzog ventures a little too far down eccentricity's back alley." POS
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe
"Does Antarctica attract dreamers or create them? It's a thread that runs throughout the film." POS
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
"Takes you places an ordinary documentary filmmaker might’ve gone to yet missed completely." POS
United StatesUnited States Los Angeles Times "The images captured by Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger are dazzling all on their own, finding the disorienting psychedelia that is nature at its weirdest." POS
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SFGATE
SFGATE
"An enjoyable example of this extraordinary director's documentary work."  POS
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