Intrepid auteur Werner Herzog goes with a tiny crew into the Chauvet cave in France, otherwise visited only by scientists for a brief time each year. His camera and imagination feast on the sculpturally elaborate caverns, the bone-covered floors, the amazingly vivid Cro-Magnon paintings of animals. Typically, the narrating Herzog has to mention cinema, Wagner, Fred Astaire, even Baywatch. This poetic vision of our Ice Age ancestors justifies the overused word “awesome,” and 3-D is a fine extra. (2011) — David Elliott
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