THE WILD BLUE YONDER (2005)

Directed by Werner Herzog

For me herzog has always meant blending the boundaries of reality and fiction. From the very beginning, remembering the ending scenes in his first major international success, Aguirre, in which the river lulls and sweeps the viewer into a hallucinatory daze; Are the monkeys Aguirre chases after actually there? Is that really a ship in the tree tops? It's Herzog's powerful hypnosis that enables us explore foreign worlds in the Wild Blue Yonder, and it's quite a breathtaking experience too. this film is accompanied by a mesmerizing soundtrack by Ernst Reijseger, and narration by an alien from Andromeda (Brad Dourif). This film excels in all departments, fantastically edited footage documenting the astronauts as the interact with the indigenous species in the Wild Blue Yonder. The editing is what captures the viewer in the film's gravity, cutting is soft and tactful, great attention is taken not to disturb the tranquility and immersion in the film, like in Heart of Glass this is a dream, not an exercise in intellect. The footage itself is fantastic in it's scope, and poetically captured, somewhere between 2001 and Dogstarman, serene beauty. Watch it now!