Even Dwarfs Started Small
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1h 35m
Directed by Werner Herzog | 96 mins | 1970
The New York Times’ Vincent Canby called Werner Herzog’s mutinous second feature a work of “perverse, uninvolved intelligence”; Harmony Korine has called it “the greatest film ever made.” When a gaggle of little folk run riot at the correctional facility where they’re being held—plopped somewhere in the middle of a pockmarked, lunar-looking expanse; really Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands—neither furniture nor fowl is safe. The viewer’s sanity will also take a beating.
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