The White Diamond

Name: The White Diamond
Genre: Adventure, Documentary
Released: June 1, 2005
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 83

2005

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: June 1, 2005

Summary: A film about the daring adventure of exploring the rainforest canopy with a novel flying device -- the Jungle Airship.

Director: Werner Herzog

Genre(s): Adventure, Documentary

Runtime: 90 min

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David Sterritt

Touching, transfixing, unique. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Werner Herzog may lack heroes, nowadays, who seem adequate to his fierce capacity for wonder. When occasion demands, however, he can still turn the world upside down. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

An inexpressibly beautiful and moving film, even though (or because) it seems to be about someone unimportant doing something irrelevant, perhaps something silly, in the face of insurmountable odds and a world that doesn't care. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Herzog also finds extraordinary beauty in what Dorrington is trying to accomplish: Like Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his boat, Dorrington wants to float around the natural world in a reverie, and when he finally does, he experiences a connection with Plage that's genuinely transcendent. Read full review

Dana Stevens

The film, which includes some breathtakingly beautiful images of the green, wet Guyanese jungle and a monumental waterfall that cuts through it, is driven less by narrative than by ideas and impressions. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

An intoxicating dream of a film that speaks to the daydreamer in all of us. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Magnificent shots of waterfalls and other natural phenomena abound, but it's far too late in the history of nature photography to expect anyone to gawk at them. Read full review

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JoeK.

Mar 24, 2006

Another glimpse of the ecstatic truth from just about the greatest man to ever live...Werner Herzog. I mean that. How else to describe someone whose work thrills me so. Enjoy. Long live Red Man!

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KenL

Dec 1, 2005

I have long been a Herzog fan, but he lost me with this dull, meaningless documentary about....about..hmmm what was it about?

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