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- 2020
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 25 m
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 25 m
Summary When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin's passion for the nomadic life.
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Written By: Werner Herzog
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 25 m
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Music Box Films
- 1 h 25 m
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
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Summary When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin's passion for the nomadic life.
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Written By: Werner Herzog
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, is one of the most deeply personal films of his long and brilliant career, I am not just indulging in a bit of critical hyperbole.
To elaborate as Chatwin did, Herzog implies, is a legitimate response to places that can’t help but exert a strong pull on the imagination. And of course, the truth-and-a-half principle figures heavily in Herzog’s own art — of which this film is a particularly outstanding example.
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin paints the picture of a man who was complex, complicated, talented and unparalleled. And perhaps above all, very loved.
Despite the participation of the traveler’s wife and biographer, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin is as much about Herzog as it is about his subject. You can be a fan of either and enjoy the film and its voice, so seamlessly did they apparently share a vision of the world.
Not intended by any stretch as a proper biography, the film is also not one of Herzog's more mainstream efforts. But admirers of either artist will find it very worthwhile, as will viewers who need the occasional reminder that the world still contains wild places to explore.
This documentary is a great look into the personal lives of Chatwin and Herzog, and for that, it is worth seeing.
A supplementary subject of most of Herzog’s work, which it shares with Chatwin’s, is a bottomless yearning for wonder.
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Production Company
BBC Scotland,
BBC Studios,
BBC2
Release Date Aug 26, 2020
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
