THE WILD BLUE YONDER :: SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING

D. Werner Herzog :: UK/FRANCE 2005 :: 81 min :: 35mm
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion / West Park Pictures / Tetra Media
Brad Dourif

A sneak preview screening Winner FIPRESCI prize, 2005 Venice Film Festival (UK/France, directed by Werner Herzog, 2005, 35mm) Described in its credits as "science fiction fantasy," German maverick Werner Herzog's latest, "The Wild Blue Yonder," should stand with the likes of "Fata Morgana" and "Lessons of Darkness" as one of helmer's best efforts at smudging the lines between documentary and fiction. Entrancing and often funny pic spins tall tale about deep-space voyages to and from earth, via a mixture of original material, archive clips and footage shot in space by astronauts themselves. Achingly beautiful music by Ernst Reijseger completes ace package. - Variety

Herzog's space fantasy uses extraordinary music and images to create an imaginary scenario that has an impassioned sub-text telling us to protect our most precious and irreplaceable possession - our planet.

Statement by Werner Herzog:
'Astronauts lost in space, the secret Roswell object re-examined, an alien who tells us all about his home planet - the Wild Blue Yonder - where the atmosphere is composed of liquid helium and the sky frozen, is all part of my science-fiction fantasy.'

About Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (real name W.H. Stipetic) was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than forty films - such as AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972), NOSFERATU (1978), FITZCARRALDO (1982), LESSONS OF DARKNESS (1992), LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY (1997) and MY BEST FIEND (1999) - has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. Werner Herzog lives in Munich and Los Angeles..

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