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Bookmark this pageWhere the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Director: Werner Herzog
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From Time Out Film Guide
A bunch of inscrutable Aboriginals occupy a patch of Australian desert, sitting down in the path of oil prospectors. Why these surly Abos? Why these belligerent Diggers? It's all because the land is a sacred burial site for mythical green ants - except that no such creatures figure in Aboriginal mythology, they're just bugs in Herzog's brain. That doesn't matter. We follow the protesting Aboriginals through a court case (the most laughable scene in this badly acted, sloppily directed movie), and back to their sit-down strike, still uncertain whether this is meant to be an adventure in anthropology, an exercise in environmental agit-prop, or just an excuse for Herzog to spend someone else's fortune laying classical music over shots of empty desert.Author: MA
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- rock johnson said...
- Posted on Jan 18 2008 01:12 Jeez Dude - I think you oughta lay off the bitters -- Try some sugar, or better yet some whiskey! Herzog is a stylist -- Let your Iron clad Orthodoxy go! Grow!
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Cast & crew
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Lucki Stipetic
Cast: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett, Norman Kaye, Colleen Clifford full cast
Duration: 100 mins
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