Should you watch Burden of Dreams?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Burden of Dreams
Documentary · 1982
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
The sides of Burden of Dreams
- Werner Herzog shooting Fitzcarraldo in the Amazon
- A steamboat pulled over a mountain
- A film crew facing accidents and delays
Burden of Dreams is good for you if…
- you like watching a real film shoot slowly fall apart.
- you like the Peruvian jungle filmed up close.
- you like the sight of a whole steamboat hauled up a hill.
Burden of Dreams is bad for you if…
- you find early 1980s footage dated.
- you need a film that moves faster than a jungle shoot.
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