Heart of Glass
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Actor: Claude Chiarini, Gunter Freyse, Janos Fischer, Josef Bierbichler, Thomas BinkleyDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Heart of Glass
Movie Review: Pure Crap
Summary: 1 Stars
Herzog is a brilliant film maker with masterpieces to his credit. This is an absurd piece of cinema that is not worth anyone's time. Such self-indulgence hurts Hrzzog's reputation and his credibility. The garbage he spews in the commentary is even worse. If you bought the Herzog collection, throw out this disk and enjoy the others. The film is a mess with no redeeming value. The nonsense spewed in the favorable reviews is beyond belief.
Summary of Heart of Glass
Heart of Glass - A small village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the owner of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, his son tries to recreate it. In order to create the proper atmosphere of trance and sleepwalking, the entire case acted under hypnosis.In his tireless crusade to expand the vocabulary of cinema, Werner Herzog turned Heart of Glass into a bold and challenging experiment. By placing all but one of his actors under hypnosis, Herzog achieved his desired effect, eliciting performances that seem oddly detached and trancelike, perfectly appropriate to a story about 19th-century Bavarian villagers who have lost their collective vision, cast adrift and descending into madness. They've lost the life-sustaining secret to the magical ruby-red glass that was once made in the local glassworks, and their predicament cannot be solved by the mystic (Josef Bierbichler, the only actor not hypnotized) who appears with premonitions of the fate of all humankind. All of this is mere pretense for Herzog's loftier (and not altogether successful) ambition: to present haunting, mysterious images that seem directly drawn from our collective subconscious. In his visionary defiance of conventional narrative, Herzog crafted a timeless, mesmerizing allegory, and one of the most eerily beautiful films ever made. --Jeff Shannon
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