Cave of Forgotten Dreams
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With a film crew of just four, German filmmaker *Werner Herzog* leads the audience into the Grottes de Chauvet, a series of caves closed to the public where in 1994 bones and paintings of animals - some extinct - were found, dating back to the aurignacian age, home to the first prehistoric culture contemporary to Neanderthal man. In interviews with specialists in speleology and archaeology, *Herzog* breathes life into the 31,000-year-old murals, drawing parallels between what are considered the oldest representations of human art and certain classics of modern culture, like the dance of *Fred Astaire* and the minotaur drawings of Picasso...
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