Meeting Gorbachev

The Orchard | Release Date: May 3, 2019

6.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Ratings

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Brent_MarchantMay 18, 2019

Despite a slight tendency to shortchange the first-person views of the principal subject (especially where his life outside of politics is concerned), director Werner Herzog's latest documentary presents a thorough look at the trulyDespite a slight tendency to shortchange the first-person views of the principal subject (especially where his life outside of politics is concerned), director Werner Herzog's latest documentary presents a thorough look at the truly remarkable accomplishments of a pragmatic and visionary statesman, one whose work was abruptly stopped short by opportunists who kept him from seeing things all the way through. Some might term this a love letter to the former Soviet leader, but in many ways it also helps to set the record straight on his achievements and how he sadly became a tragic hero. Gorbachev's admonishments for the current geopolitical situation serve as an insightful warning against letting history repeat itself and undoing everything that he did that his predecessors were unable to accomplish. Genuinely moving and inspired viewing.… Expand

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Mauro_LanariNov 11, 2021

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With a real documentary, without fictitious inserts and after abandoning the cinema of "acting", Herzog finds in Gorbachev another figure worthy of his best cinema, and explains it himself in the film: a character from Greek(Mauro Lanari)
With a real documentary, without fictitious inserts and after abandoning the cinema of "acting", Herzog finds in Gorbachev another figure worthy of his best cinema, and explains it himself in the film: a character from Greek tragedy, aware of having stubbornly desired a dream too big and beyond the limit, a man who on his grave would like to be written a humble "We tried", both on the human and political fronts. Yet there is an abysmal difference between the various "Aguirre" or "Fitzcarraldo" and "Gorbachev": this time it is not the defeat of a delirium of omnipotence, of a utopian idealist who crashes against Nature and its indomitable laws, but of a statesman who was demonstrating how the Leninist way to a "human" communism was viable, so much so that the conservative forces dismissed him with a putsch. The "repubblichino" Ezio Mauro plays dumb denying the historical and macroeconomic evidence: the fall of the Wall in '89 was only a consequence of the multiple reforms carried out during his secretariat from 1985 to 1991. Growing up in a kolkhoz, he had learned to increase the purchasing power not by raising incomes, salaries and wages (see Landini and today's false left), but by keeping prices down and therefore the cost of living. The variables to modify the gap between rich and poor are 2, and a left that is truly such acts on the second, not on the first one.… Expand

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