CRITIQUE – The director and writer publishes Each for himself and God against alla new text as baroque as it is mystical which reads as one would watch one of his films: with excitement, surprise and appetite.
Diving into the memoirs of Werner Herzog, filmmaker of excess, famous for his apocalyptic filming, we constantly feel waving beneath the words like a small flame of lively madness. At 82, the director ofAguirre, the wrath of God (1972) or Fitzcarraldo (1982) published a new text entitled Each for himself and God against all. Even more surprising than The Twilight of the World (2022), his previous work.
From the outset, Herzog introduces his book with an anecdote linked to Aguirre, the wrath of god. Originally, his film was to end with the cry of a parrot repeating endlessly: « Eldorado, eldorado ». We know that this meditative expedition in search of the dream gold of the city of Eldorado, led by a hallucinated Klaus Kinski, does not end like that.
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