Fitzcarraldo - Film Review
OUTSTANDING FILM
★★★★★- 5 Stars
The "Burden of Dreams". Werner Herzog's masterpiece, in my mind, Fitzcarraldo. Once again, we have Klaus Kinski at the helm and he's as mad as ever. He wants his opera house! Kinski plays Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, a man intent on building an opera house for a poor jungle village. He gathers a crew and takes a massive ship across the jungle rivers. His crew, however, is not the best. Most of them are natives who have no experience on what they are about to do. The captain (Paul Hittscher) doesn't believe that the journey will be successful. Of course, Fitzgerald is confident in the expedition.
The trip is, in fact, perilous. At one point, tribal people start making sounds that indicate death. Fitzgerald is able to sooth them with Opera music (which really wouldn't sooth me to be honest). The most famous part of the movie is when they approach a problem where they have to bring the ship over a mountain. They do. It's incredible. The problem now is that the crew have left them, leaving only the captain and Fitzgerald. The movie ends with Fitzgerald and the captain returning to the village. Fitzgerald sends the captain on one more expedition and we see a group of opera performers, including Fitzgerald's favorite Caruso, aboard the ship performing a show.
The sense of adventure and confidence the film has makes it one of the best ever made. The problems endured during the production of the film live in infamy. What I really love about the film is the adventure itself, where we see everything that happens to Fitzgerald and his crew. The reason the film is called Fitzcarraldo and not Fitzgerald? The native people would call him Fitzcarraldo.
The trip is, in fact, perilous. At one point, tribal people start making sounds that indicate death. Fitzgerald is able to sooth them with Opera music (which really wouldn't sooth me to be honest). The most famous part of the movie is when they approach a problem where they have to bring the ship over a mountain. They do. It's incredible. The problem now is that the crew have left them, leaving only the captain and Fitzgerald. The movie ends with Fitzgerald and the captain returning to the village. Fitzgerald sends the captain on one more expedition and we see a group of opera performers, including Fitzgerald's favorite Caruso, aboard the ship performing a show.
The sense of adventure and confidence the film has makes it one of the best ever made. The problems endured during the production of the film live in infamy. What I really love about the film is the adventure itself, where we see everything that happens to Fitzgerald and his crew. The reason the film is called Fitzcarraldo and not Fitzgerald? The native people would call him Fitzcarraldo.
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