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Salt and Fire is about a mysterious hostage-taking where the leader of a small scientific delegation is deliberately stranded with two blind boys in an area of gigantic salt flats. Shot in Bolivia, the film stars Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres and Gael García Bernal and was written and directed by Werner Herzog.
30 November 1978, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
1971
10 June 1965, Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
5 September 1942, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
29 May 1982, Reykjavik, Iceland
April 28, 2017
Salt and Fire, you see, is well-made folly. And like cult camp classics of yore, it rolls out enough portent and absurdity to leave you snickering.April 06, 2017
Werner Herzog's latest half-hearted return to narrative cinema is more excited by its stunning landscape than the life inside it.April 05, 2017
A bad movie but an intriguing vacation slideshow ...April 07, 2017
Looking just like a dressed-up Neil Breen joint, Salt and Fire becomes, at its best, Herzog's version of camp; at its worst, unwitting self-parody.April 05, 2017
Despite the bad acting, self-importance and general Herzogian ridiculousness, the director actually has a deep sense of beauty ...April 08, 2017
The final reels are so compelling it's almost worth sitting through everything that came before. Almost.April 07, 2017
A very peculiar misfire for Herzog, but still kinda interesting.April 09, 2017
Usually a director of fascinating films and documentaries about humans clashing with their environments, director Werner Herzog delivers a misfire with this puzzling, uncentered drama.April 10, 2017
A visionary director's creative and challenging look at an ecological disaster.April 07, 2017
In imbuing what might otherwise be a straight-forward environmental thriller with his signature sense of artistry, Herzog has succeeded in creating a film without parallel.April 06, 2017
Like something you peer at rather than absorb, "Salt and Fire" is both awful and a tad fascinating.April 05, 2017
The worst movie that Werner Herzog has ever made.