I don’t know what it is about Werner Herzog but he has a way with direction, be it with fictional works or documentaries, which makes his films at least interesting if not endlessly watchable. Whilst Encounters at the End of the World is nothing compared to his previous documentary, the excellent Grizzly Man, it is a riveting watch based purely on Herzog’s charm. Only Herzog would genuinely ask a penguin specialist if he’d ever heard of homosexuality or psychosis in penguin colonies and only Herzog would be so up front about the fact that, whilst in awe of the continent of Antarctica, openly vents his misery at being stuck in such and inhospitable place.
The cinematography is breathtaking. Many of the underwater shots, in which biologists slip under the ice to examine that life beneath the frozen tundra, is jaw dropping.
4/5
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