Serves as an eloquent coda to their unforgettable creative partnership.
My Best Fiend(Mein liebster Feind)
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Germany, United Kingdom, United States · 1999
1h 35m
Director Werner Herzog
Starring Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Justo González
Genre Documentary
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Werner Herzog, an iconic German filmmaker, steps before the camera in this revelatory documentary depicting the complicated relationship with his longtime friend and collaborator, actor Klaus Kinski. Herzog explores their love-hate relationship and bitter rivalry through their partnerships, during which each vied for dominance.
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Absorbing, artfully executed.
A first-person doc assembled largely from footage taken in the course of the five features they made, being madmen together.
The evidence Herzog serves up is impossible to dismiss.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Hugely entertaining.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Like a car crash in slo-mo, it's a riveting, beautiful mess.
San Francisco Chronicle by Peter Stack
One of the great portraits of artists fighting, even with murderous rage, to reach the sublime.
This documentary, a gallivanting time trip through a bolder film era, is Herzog's final collaboration with Kinski: an act of love and exorcism.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
About two men who both wanted to be dominant, who both had all the answers, who were inseparably bound together in love and hate, and who created extraordinary work--while all the time each resented the other's contribution.
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