Herzog delivers a documentary so powerful that the result will leave the viewer more than just well-informed but transported by the experience.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 7, 2023

A marvelous dream impossible to forget. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2022

Cave of Forgotten Dreams: 3D is an interesting story, told by that quirky friend...

| Mar 24, 2021

This little experiment (said to be the first and the last 3D film by him) confirms that Herzog does whatever he feels like, never following trend, but with astounding consistency. It fits within his body of work very smoothly.

| Mar 21, 2021

Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a sublime time machine crafted by one of the living legends.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2020

Cave of Forgotten Dreams transports its audience into another world, on an intimate visit to France's Chauvet Cave, where only a handful of modern humans have ever been. It's one of the most significant 3-D films to ever hit the screen.

| Nov 22, 2019

Herzog tells us, in his inimitable way, why we care about a bunch of old pictures of horses and lions.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

While Herzog's philosophizing may not be as valid or necessary here as it perhaps has been in a number of prior works such as Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams is unmatched in its enchantment.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 14, 2018

...a striking work of art, framing another that is wholly extraordinary.

| Nov 5, 2018

In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, he seems to return for the first time with an actual chunk of the destination, carved out to be shared generously with the rest of the world.

| Dec 14, 2017

I'd highly recommend Cave of Forgotten Dreams-it's interesting, informative, and it demonstrates perfectly just what a waste of time and money 3D is for every lame summer action movie that comes out.

| Oct 24, 2017

Minor Herzog. Not until the final reel does it take flight the way his best pictures do.

| May 12, 2015

Why shoot a documentary about cave paintings in 3D? Is Werner Herzog crazy? The answer to the second question has always been, "quite possibly," but the answer to the first becomes apparent the first time he trains his camera on the cave walls.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 15, 2014

Even those who have found Herzog's work lacking in the past will have a hard time writing off Cave of Forgotten Dreams. It's a superb film.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 11, 2013

Fascinating artworks by early man, sure, but they're let down by Herzog's long, rambling soliloquies about the history of homosapiens, albino crocodiles, and Baywatch... These sequences would have been right at home in a 45-minute IMAX film.

| Sep 8, 2013

Es indudable la capacidad del director por intentar, a través de la cámara, lo mismo que intentaron aquellos hombres y mujeres del Paleolítico unos 30.000 años atrás: comunicarse, expresar sentimientos y emociones, crear belleza.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2012

... captures the space, the texture, the quality of color of these ghost-like paintings, like shadows of the past captured on the cave walls.

| Nov 30, 2011

Confirmation, if any was needed, that culture and civilization existed 25,000 years ago and that we have gone downhill since the introduction of private property.

| Nov 29, 2011

These images of what the world was increase my sense of awe at what the world is.

| Original Score: B | Nov 25, 2011

Cave of Forgotten Dreams is one of Herzog's most memorable films. Its subject, the 32,000-year-old drawings on the wall of the Chauvet Cave in southern France, is so astonishing that even Herzog's amiable sidetracks can't destroy the wonder.

| Sep 23, 2011