Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
Art history lessons don't get much better: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" presents the world's oldest paintings captured by one of film's great visionaries.
– Walter V. Addiego,
San Francisco Chronicle,
5 May 2011
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This is something more than a movie; it's a testament - and re-creation - of rapture.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
6 May 2011
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To call "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" a great movie isn't just an understatement, it's a wildly inaccurate way to describe an experience that, in its immersive sensory pleasures and climactic journey of discovery, more closely resembles an ecstatic trance.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
6 May 2011
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The overall effect, aided by Ernst Reijseger's score of rising choral harmonies and lush strings, is rapturous.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
7 Jul 2011
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It is our tour guide that makes Cave of Forgotten Dreams an often thrilling experience.