Get our of bed, sail 600 miles down the Amazon, go to the opera, sail back, go to bed, wake up the following morning, buy a vast area of virgin jungle in Peru that can only be reached by taking a steam ship over a mountain, then take said ship over mountain and sail back to pay your creditors. Sometimes life can be hectic, but Fitzcarraldo manages to do all that at a hypnotizing, relaxing pace.
Make sure that you leave enough time to watch the whole film as it is (satisfyingly) long. Get it now.
PS It was all filmed with a real steam ship during a war between Peru and Ecuador!
Saturday, 1 September 2007
Fitzcarraldo
