Here’s a film that is considered one of the ten greatest of all time by Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, Roger Ebert.
From the opening shot of a thousand men descending a mountain, in single file, ominously weighed down by a heavy fog, to the closing 360 degree sweep around the devastated raft of Don Lope de Aguirre, this film is packed with images that are impossible to forget.
This film is concerned with the oppressive nature of the world and the struggle of humanity, in the face of insurmountable odds, to chase after their illusive dreams. Aguirre leads his troop down the Amazon river to inevitable doom, full of arrogance and wrath.
It is impossible to take your eyes off Klaus Kinski, who embodies the tyrant and is a mirror to the indomitable human spirit.
This film is about the grander scheme of the world and how it works against us if we are greedy and overly ambitious. With gorgeous cinematography, a poetic grandeur, and in spite of a deliberately slow pace, this film is a celluloid fable that is impossible to forget.
