In miles at least, Werner Herzog has never travelled farther in search of a lunatic fringe: the dwellers in Antarctica, the bottom of the globe. His wide-angled camera finds some interesting interview subjects, “dreamers,” misfits, seekers, in addition to interesting nature footage: underwater beneath the ice, at the rim of an active volcano, on the trail of a maverick penguin. Herzog himself, a fringy lunatic in his own right, stays off screen but always in our ear: “We flew into the unknown, a seemingly endless void.” In spite of statements such as that one, his characteristic attempts to hype up his topics are comparatively toned down. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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