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Chatwin was a British travel writer, journalist and novelist who had a particular fascination with the theme of human restlessness. He believed that mankind was hardwired to be a migratory species and all of the troubles began when it abandoned that notion in order to begin settling down. He traveled the world, at a time when it was still possible to go to places that hadn’t been overrun with tourists, and wrote vividly about in such acclaimed books as In Patagonia (1977) and The Songlines (1987). It was during his time in the Australian Outback writing the latter title that he first met Herzog in 1983 and realized that they were kindred spirits whose journeys had taken them to a number of the same places, albeit at different times. This began a friendship that would last until Chatwin’s death in 1989 and included Herzog adapting Chawin’s The Viceroy of Ouidah into the hallucinatory 1987 adventure “Cobra Verde.” As a tribute to his friend, Herzog has made a film that finds him journeying to a number of the places that he and Chatwin encountered in the past in order to look at them anew and reflect on how the nomadic spirit that drove Chatwin and continues to drive him has largely become a thing of the past.
In the spirit of adventure that this film represents, I will leave most of what he comes across for you to discover on your own. The one chapter that I will mention is the first one, which takes us to Patagonia, where, the story goes, a past relative supposedly discovered a perfectly preserved brontosaurus. Alas, the creature was destroyed on the journey back to civilization but a piece of skin covered in fur was saved and made its way to his grandmother. Herzog finds that mysterious piece of skin in a museum in Buenos Aires and while it may not come strictly as advertised, its history is still pretty fascinating, as is the somewhat more scatological piece that it is being exhibited in the same case. The whole thing may come across as absurd but Herzog does not treat it as a joke and by the end of the sequence, you may be stunned by how he and Chatwin were able to take things as mundane as a piece of skin and a giant piece of shit and transform them into talismans to help viewers contemplate the infinite possibilities of existence.
Because it lacks the kind of big hook that attracted attention to Herzog’s more well-known documentaries, there is the distinct possibility that “Nomad” may be viewed in some circles as a minor effort that is little more than him paying back a metaphorical debt to one of his inspirations. This could not be further from the truth because it has everything that one looks for in a Herzog film—scope, ambition, moments of extraordinary visual beauty (it is too bad that few people will be able to see this on the big screen where it belongs), bits of mordant humor and enough intriguing philosophical concerns to inspire and drive any number of post-screening conversations. In time, I suspect that it will be regarded as one of the great and meaningful works in a filmography that is not exactly lacking for such things. That said, why wait until everyone else has settled on that when you can go out right now and discover its mysteries and majesties for yourself? It would certainly be keeping in the spirit of “Nomad” and you will be seeing one of the year’s best films to boot.
Opens in virtual cinemas on August 26th.
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2020)
Rated PG
89 minutes
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