Word: fitzcarraldo
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This director bears no resemblance whatsoever to his armchair counterparts in Hollywood. For Werner Herzog, filming his latest effort Fitzcarraldo, only hauling this massive ship over the mountain would properly illustrate the central metaphor of his movie. Perpetually choosing the most difficult route possible to achieve his goals, Herzog scorns the shortcuts and props that usually dominate his medium...
...plot of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, which has yet to open in Boston, in turn follows the real-life story of bankrupt Irishman who dreams of producing the operas Carcuso in the Brazilian jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does...
Where does that leave Cannes the movie festival? Still exciting after all these years. Fitzcarraldo, which stars Klaus Kinski as an Irish rubber baron who leaves his mistress, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a mystical trek through the Peruvian jungle that took four calamitous years out of Director Herzog's life and won him the best director prize. The official competition also boasted new films from Michelangelo Antonioni, Jerzy Sko-limowski and Jean-Luc Godard. Antonioni's Identification of a Woman is hypnotic and erotic, and it earned him the festival's special 35th-anniversary citation...