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Synopsis: In 1994, a group of scientists discovered a cave in Southern France perfectly preserved for over 20,000 years and containing the earliest known human paintings. Knowing the cultural significance that the Chauvet Cave holds, the French government immediately cut-off all access to it, save a few archaeologists and paleontologists. But documentary filmmaker, Werner Herzog, has been given limited access, and now we get to go inside examining beautiful artwork created by our ancient ancestors around 32,000 years ago. He asks questions to various historians and scientists about what these humans would have been like and trying to build a bridge from the past to the present.
Director(s): Werner Herzog
Production: IFC Films
  11 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
86
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
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Year:
2010
90 min
$5,234,785
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4,134 Views


- The fire were necessary

to look at the paintings

and maybe towards

staging people around.

When you look with the flame,

with moving light,

you can imagine people dancing

with the shadows.

Like Fred Astaire.

- Fred Astaire, yes.

I think that this image

dancing with this shadow

is a very strong and old images

of human representation,

because the first representation

was the walls,

the white wall

and the black shadow.

The presence of humans

in the cave

was fleeting like shadows.

Bear skulls everywhere,

but these skulls belong

to the cave bear,

a species, like the mammoth

and the woolly rhino,

that vanished from the face

of the Earth long ago.

Tens of thousands of years

of patient water dripping

has left a thick coating

of calcite on this skull.

It now has the appearance

of a porcelain sculpture.

In all this menagerie of bones,

there's not a single

human specimen.

Scientists have determined that

humans never lived in the cave.

They used it only for painting

and possibly ceremonies.

Michel Philipe has studied

the bones of Chauvet Cave.

Caves

constitute a favorable place

for the preservation of bones.

As the result,

there are a lot of bear bones.

Overall, this represents

but there are also some wolves.

We have two skulls

and have several bones.

We have a few ibexes.

We have a magnificent skull

on the wet sand with calcite,

quite lovely.

When you shine light on it,

they are calcite crystals

that glisten.

It's truly quite lovely.

There are some horses as well.

There is a cave hyena.

What else is there?

There's also an eagle skeleton,

a golden eagle,

practically whole,

but it may be

a little more recent,

carried in by the run of water

and wedged against the big rocks

at the edge of the waterway.

So you can see its bones

spread out

over ten feet in length.

Our goal is not only to say

what bones there are,

but we also try to understand

if they lived there,

if they were moved,

how they were transported.

Did the bears bring the bones?

There are several bones that

have been chewed on a little.

So it could have been the bears

or the hyenas.

All the scientists

are lodged

in a nearby sports complex.

Although they each have

their special field,

they compare and combine

their findings.

We were interested in the work

of these two.

Carole, Gilles, can you explain

about what you're doing here?

- Yeah, oui.

In the cave,

we are trying to reveal

the contours

of underlying designs

that are hard to follow

with the naked eye.

Because we are not supposed

to touch the wall,

we take a series of photos that

we put together in a mosaic.

We are trying to achieve

a maximum of detail.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. more…

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