Werner Herzog and a small film crew enter the Chauvet cave in southern France to photograph the cave paintings that are probably 32,000 years old.
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams is another meditation by Werner Herzog on art and the human condition. For a Herzog documentary this is a relatively restrained piece of film without a lot of the expected weirdness that is a Herzog documentary.
There is something fascinating about seeing this cave art and knowing that primitive man has already gone where... well whatever.
It would hardly be a Herzog film without some ultimate bizarreness somewhere in the film and Herzog's postscript involves nuclear power plants and albino alligators because why wouldn't it.
90 minutes.
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