Lebenszeichen (1968) (aka Signs Of Life)
Werner Herzog
German
“Dammit! This place is full of roaches. They’re not harmful. They are the most repulsive things on earth. They don’t even bite.”
German master Werner Herzog has made more than 50 feature films and he is as intriguing as ever. His films, though he has requested people not to read too much into them, have made us raise so many questions about the world we live in. His first feature film Signs Of Life (1968) holds as many questions for us as does his recent Oscar nominated documentary Encounters At The End Of The World. Why Signs of Life is all the more surprising is that the themes that would haunt the director and his works in the decades to come not only show their roots in this film but establish themselves with as much conviction as their descendants.
March 31, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I’m gonna get the original copy of this movie soon. And hoping I can watch it too… Godard is still lying on my shelf.
March 31, 2009 at 2:54 pm
argh… I know how it feels to see stagnant films :)
April 28, 2009 at 9:01 pm
[...] And this is where Pather Panchali gets deeper than meets the eye. Exactly like Herzog would do in Signs of Life (1968), Ray often composes his shot such that there is interaction between man and nature, with the [...]
April 4, 2010 at 4:48 pm
[...] guarding the outpost that is far from being under threat is reminiscent of Herzog’s Signs of Life (1968), where, too, the very purpose of existence of the characters was questioned. But unlike [...]