Shot in Tokyo, Family Romance is a story that deals with loneliness and isolation (Photo: Lena Herzog/Modern Films)īut even Herzog has been waylaid by Covid-19. He has already finished another non-fiction film about meteorites, which he compares to Into the Inferno, the 2016 documentary he made about volcanoes with Cambridge academic Clive Oppenheimer. Last year, he completed three films – documentaries about former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev and travel writer Bruce Chatwin and the quirky feature Family Romance, LLC, out on Friday. Such is his fluency in film – he has always embraced technology – it almost defies belief that he grew up in the remote mountain village of Sachrang, in Bavaria, reputedly unaware of the medium of cinema until a traveling projectionist visited his school. “My output is higher than 40, 30, 20 years ago,” he claims. His face may now be craggy, but age has not withered Herzog. It is not hard to imagine his acolytes arriving in the middle of nowhere, desperate to ingest some of that maverick spirit – and at 77, Herzog loves to impart his wisdom. Stand-ins: ‘Family Romance, LLC’ deals in the hiring of life ‘surrogates’ (Photo: Lena Herzog/Modern Films) “I had a workshop last year in the Peruvian jungle and we had film-makers from 28 countries, and in the first minute of the meeting, I told them: ‘This is the frame in which we have to make the films – fever dreams in the jungle. “All of a sudden my films are available and it’s the young ones that come at me. Rather than his recent role as “The Client” on Star Wars spin-off show The Mandalorian, he attributes his ever-growing cult following to the new life his movies have gained via streaming. Behind him are rows and rows of books – proof that he reads almost as voraciously as he makes films.Īn adventurer-artist, Herzog has transported viewers to some of the most remote places on Earth, from the Amazon jungle in Fitzcarraldo to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World. The film-maker and occasional actor is sitting in his study, in the home he shares in Los Angeles with his photographer wife Elena. “I have a lot of confidence in the very young ones – but they need to read more!” he states, in that delicious Bavarian accent of his. Werner Herzog, to quote Whitney Houston, believes the children are the future.
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