also known as Mein liebster Feind Klaus Kinski
My Best Fiend1999
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Fascinating and rather appalling. Here you see that the puppet (Klaus Kinski) was totally manipulated by the puppeteer (Werner Herzog).
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- Claudia Cardinale - Herself
- Werner Herzog - Himself
- Mick Jagger - Himself/ Wilbur
- Jason Robards Jr. - Fitzcarraldo
- Klaus Kinski - Himself
- Eva Mattes - Herself
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Fascinating and rather appalling. Here you see that the puppet (Klaus Kinski) was totally manipulated by the puppeteer (Werner Herzog).
I always thought Kinski was strange. Now I know he was truly a bizarre and troubled person. Brilliant and criminal. Not sure he should be revered though...
Engaging documentary about a volatile relationship between a mercurial director and his mad star.
The fever and intoxication of the art process is what this film is about. Not abstract, but inside an extraordinary shooting a film in impossible conditions. Sometimes hard to watch, but worth, like a bad dream that has some indistinctual attraction.
Having only heard of this enigmatic legend, and not knowing of him, I was intrigued by this film. He is still as attractive and charismatic as he is frightening and repulsive. I do wish that it weren't made by Herzog, though, because how can we know this is unbiased? But then it wouldn't be "My Best Friend." The charming of the butterfly says it all.
For someone who "burned all the extra footage" from his films, he seems to have kept just enough to reflect on what is often hard to appreciate while it is happening.
A special film and a must-see for any student of the possibility
inherent in serious cinema and alltheway art.
At the beginning of this film, one will wonder if Kinski was actually as nuts as Herzog claimed. Herzog's demeanor can easily betray an unfamiliar onlooker's perception of him. Truth to be told, he is as equally as turbulent as Kinski. In contrast to Kinski's prominent madness though, Herzog is in control and able to use his tumult in a very productive manner. Herzog is to Kinski as lightning is to thunder. Their relationship is so unnerving and yet so beautiful. Watch this film and you will experience the emotional palette of human existence.
A fascinating movie. Here we see Herzog the documentarian dissecting and analyzing one of his great artistic muses, Klaus Kinski. While there is obviously an inherent bias in that only one half of this mutually beneficial partnership is telling the story, the movie still paints a compelling portrait of Kinski. A fascinating portrait of two great artists, and two megalomaniacs, who can't help but elevate each other's art, despite each of their inherent egotism.
I did not watch it !
Fascinating study of 2 complicated p, clever and driven artists.
A great director, but an actor the likes of. we may never see again.
Herzog and Kinski - Now that was a team!