Recently I watched the newest document created by Werner Herzog - "Cave of Forgotten Dreams". I guess for many the content might be boring, so I was surprised to see many people in the cinema...
In short, this picture shows what Herzog and his small team were able to see and film when they entered Chauvet cave in the south of France - the cave where very recently, just 17 years ago, a group of explorers discovered paintings made by human beings... The oldest paintings found so far on earth, from about 32 thousand years ago!
The views are amazing, especially that the movie is in 3D. The pictures are accompanied by music and the comments of the archeologists, paleontologists and art historians who spent a lot of time in the cave and outside it trying to understand the meaning of what they saw.
Watching the pictures of running horses or fighting rhinos on the walls of the cave, seeing the handprints of our ancestor (or ancestors) left in the cave thousands of years ago gave me real thrills. Here it was, a mysterious vision of a human being, a sign of his/her knowledge, imagination, beliefs... And knowing that barely anyone can actually enter the cave and most probably I will never be there made me very happy and grateful for creating such an important documentary.
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