[FlixOlé] It was the most expensive Spanish film and also one of the biggest box office flops. But time has benefited it, placing it in a deserved place as a more realistic reflection of the progressive dementia of Lope de Aguirre (a splendid Omero Antonutti). More realistic than Werner Herzog's film, it is a less oppressive exploration, but also deeper, of the process of degradation suffered by some advances of Spanish soldiers in search of the mythology of El Dorado. With a slow pace that is necessary to establish the evolution of the characters, it is a beautiful and thoughtful film, with extraordinary use of Richard Wagner's Prelude to Act III of "Tristan and Isolde", lending it a sense of doom.
Shout by Miguel A. ReinaBlockedParent2023-02-25T18:15:32Z
[FlixOlé] It was the most expensive Spanish film and also one of the biggest box office flops. But time has benefited it, placing it in a deserved place as a more realistic reflection of the progressive dementia of Lope de Aguirre (a splendid Omero Antonutti). More realistic than Werner Herzog's film, it is a less oppressive exploration, but also deeper, of the process of degradation suffered by some advances of Spanish soldiers in search of the mythology of El Dorado. With a slow pace that is necessary to establish the evolution of the characters, it is a beautiful and thoughtful film, with extraordinary use of Richard Wagner's Prelude to Act III of "Tristan and Isolde", lending it a sense of doom.