Land of Silence and Darkness

Marco Della Motta

Quite possibly Herzog's most affecting documentary, shot with a curious but compassionate eye.

KingBeard

Extraordinary. This was an incredibly emotional experience for me. So many moments of joy and sweetness and sadness. That first flight. The chimpanzee. The man with the tree.

klofter

This is Herzog at his least manipulative as a documentary filmmaker and as a result maybe his most affecting work. What starts out as the portrait of one woman overcoming incredible odds becomes more and more a parable on the human longing for connection and affection. The last scene is heart breaking and upsetting but also beautiful in a way. The same goes for the movie as a whole.

matthewlong1985

Possibly Herzog's best. I think you understand what that means.

Mingle

Please let me relive this film over and over.

Andhika Eka Buana

A film that should be put in every home so that we could be thankful for all the things that God has given us.Period. This one gonna played at least once a month in my future family home theatre.

Duncan Gray

Beautiful, heavy doc by Herzog that, as others have noted, will make you happy for all you have. Its choice of subject—a high-functioning deaf-blind woman who serves, in effect, as an ambassador for a community largely cut off from communication—moves the film from exploitation to advocacy. This is an ode to the sanctity of human consciousness in all forms. Herzog would make better docs, but this is hard to forget.

Teona Gal

3.5. Fini, through whom the story is told, is a bridge between the people around her and also between the viewer and her world. So the protagonist is beautifully chosen, but the film is somehow sloppy and very depressing and uncomfortable but not in a manner that it has a trajectory. And that makes it confusing, a feeling that is certainly too much, added to the depressive slope.