My Best Fiend (1999)
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Neutral, steady, measured documentary, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
Our read · My Best Fiend (1999) (1999) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of My Best Fiend
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a funny yet dark Herzog documentary on his wild partnership with Kinski.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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