Directed by Werner Herzog
by Francis Friel, The Projectionist

Any new release from Werner Herzog ought to be met with a parade. He releases three documentaries in a single year? Three parades. Anything the man does is a cause for celebration.

But in the eight years since the release of his previous narrative feature, he got off-balance. He worked on perfecting the episodic, sliced-and-diced documentary format he's been playing with for decades, while in the process losing something integral to what made so much of his past work noteworthy: his passion.