Should you watch My Best Fiend?
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My Best Fiend
Documentary · 1999
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
The sides of My Best Fiend
- Werner Herzog remembering Klaus Kinski
- Five films made together, from the jungle of Peru
- Rages on set caught on camera
My Best Fiend is good for you if…
- you want the true story behind Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo.
- you laugh at a director calmly recalling his plan to kill his star.
- you like two impossible men who could not work apart.
My Best Fiend is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles for a film partly in German.
- you find footage from the seventies dated.
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