Deborah Ross

Fascinatingly weird – but not satisfyingly weird: Herzog’s Family Romance LLC reviewed

The 90 minutes skip by breezily enough but there’s no sense of closure, moral or otherwise

Tokyo story: Mahiro Tanimoto as Mahiro and Ishii Yuichi as himself. Credit: Lena Herzog 
issue 04 July 2020

In the past Werner Herzog has given us a man pushing a ship up a mountain, a 16th-century conquistador going mad in Peru, Timothy Treadwell being eaten by a bear (who isn’t still recovering from that one?) and the 3-D documentary on cave paintings that ended with albino alligators, so there is never any saying what his next film will be about.

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