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Apr 7, 2017 · A shady businessman abducts a scientist in Bolivia and leaves her stranded in the middle of gigantic salt flats with two blind boys. Rent Salt and Fire on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple...
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Salt and Fire: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Veronica Ferres, Michael Shannon, Gael García Bernal, Volker Zack. A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.
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- Werner Herzog
- 2017-04-07
Salt and Fire, you see, is well-made folly. And like cult camp classics of yore, it rolls out enough portent and absurdity to leave you snickering. Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 28,...
Salt and Fire is a 2016 thriller film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres, and Gael García Bernal. [2] It tells the story about a hostage-taking situation set against an ecological disaster in Bolivia. [3] It had its premiere at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
- Surrealism in Performance
- Idiosyncratic Unease
- What Is Truth? Baby Don’T Hurt Me
Like Herzog‘s disregard for traditional narrative elements in his fiction films, his conception of acting has always deviated from the norm; this is a man who once put his cast under hypnosis to get the desired removed performances. But especially within the past decade, he has reconstructed his conception of film performance and moved his players ...
From the opening credits, you’re thrust into the middle of the story, already struggling to find your footing as a discongruantly pleasant aria fills a sinister scene. After the film catches up to this opening sequence in the first act, you only ever know as much as Laura, as you desperately grasp at the thin narrative just as she searches for answ...
But the most Herzogian element of the film is the suffusion into the story of a painfully timely examination on the nature of truth and reality. At one point Shannon‘s Matt states “there is no reality, there are only views of reality, only perception. All collective anxieties condense into conspiracy theories.” This can be easily be viewed as a sum...
I run across this movie and lo and behold, Netflix has it rated 5 stars! I check this site, and the first review has it 7 stars and says it's an 'eco thriller'! So, I figure it must be worth a watch.
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Salt and Fire is a film about three kidnapped scientists, set against the backdrop of an ecological disaster caused by a large corporation. It’s a headsy dialogue driven film with super weird performances and a story that is high drama.
