A ★★★★½ review of Sorcerer (1977) (original) (raw)

shookone’s review published on Letterboxd:

what a ride, literally! visceral, haptic, corporeal.
from times when the definition of (hollywood! blockbuster!!) cinema could still be found in the filmmaking process - an procedure of survival instincts, carnal expenditure and fight-or-flight somatic reeling.

this legitimate brother of Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo has what it needs to man up in a world of uncertainty, imponderability and the epic battle of nature vs man/art/film. Tangerine Dream gives you the soundtrack for the journey into madness. the first half-an-hour was written whiskey-cockeyed and created intoxicated on the hot fumes of 80s latin america, but you'll start accepting it once the fever dream gathers the pace of unfiltered existentialism.

Friedkin understand(s) a lot about filmmaking, and therefore the world. one of the most underrated masters, created one of the most underrated oevres - Cruising and this one here as the epitomes.