When Werner Herzog needed a title for his memoirs, he reached back to one of his own films: "Every Man for Himself and God Against All," the original German title of his 1974 feature known in English as "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser." For Herzog, perhaps the last wild man of European cinema, it's less a title than a worldview.
Over more than 60 years as a provocative, boundary-breaking filmmaker, Herzog has made films on the slopes of active volcanoes, and in the middle of the Sahara. He's filmed in the jungle and north of the Arctic Circle, telling stories of characters who live at the edges of human achievement. Often, in making these films, Herzog has pushed himself, and his collaborators, to the edge as well.
Now 84, Werner Herzog shows no signs of slowing down. He's back with a new feature film, "Bucking Fastard," his first drama in seven years, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
'Bucking Fastard:' two sisters, totally in sync
The film is the story of Jean and Joan Holbrooke, two sisters who speak, think and move in unison. They even share the same dreams and love the same undeserving man.
