While the most famous and well-recognized is the horse panel/wall with it’s variegated shading and movement, there’s also the only known painting of a panther in this area or time period along with the incredible and much debated cave lions. These ancient artists used the natural curve of the cave wall for movement, shading, realism, and more. On the walls are horses, lions, gazelle, bison, leopards, rhinoceros, elephants, hyenas, and even a bison running in 8-legged motion.
The movie’s main focues are the cave paintings and the world they depict untold years later. There are various depictions of what the wildlife might have been during the cave’s useful period as there is a menagerie of bones and skeletons belonging to horses, golden eagles, ibex, and bears. These cave bears made deep scratches in the cave walls, over and under the paintings along with the longest set of cave bear tracks in the world. There are the now extinct cave bear skulls and bones littered everywhere in the shots, some beautifully covered in glittering calcite. The cave itself was not a hiding place or dwelling but rather a place for painting and perhaps rituals. The ability for this cave and its contents to be so miraculously preserved after supposedly 28,000 years of time is that a sudden rock slide and collapse of a cliff sealed in the paintings, creating a time capsule of sorts.
#The cave of time movie#
So, the movie begins to take viewers on a journey of going with the movie crew, along with the anthropologists, scientists, art historians, geologists and the like to discover for themselves the “frozen flash of a moment in time” hidden within the cave. The cave paintings are more than twice as old as any other cave ever discovered. Herzog goes on to explain that the cave in question, the Chauvet Cave, was discovered by French cave explorers in 1993. The same is true for THE CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, which opens with Gregorian chants, haunting choral singing and writer/director/star/producer Werner Herzog’s gravelly voice suddenly breaking the silence over the picturesque scenery of the French countryside by saying, “Tens of thousands of years ago. . .” One can never truly know until the movie ends just what the exact underlying message the movie is trying to communicate. Thus, if you’re interested in the subject, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS is worth seeing, but there are slow moments, along with the movie’s questionable worldview content.
However, it’s the blatant Non-Christian ideologies and subtexts permeating the movie, including its pro-evolutionary perspective and pagan mysticism, that media-wise viewers will find offensive.
The glittering, sparkling, calcite covered skulls, bones, paintings, and relics from mankind’s history are a gorgeous, unique thing to visually explore.
Herzog also ponders the meaning of the cave and the paintings, as he interviews some of the people studying the cave.ĬAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS is a movie with beautiful moments. Herzog and his crew explore the paintings and other things found in the cave, including animal bones, an ancient boy’s footprint and a man’s red handprints. CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS opens with Gregorian chants, haunting choral singing and Director Werner Herzog’s gravelly voice suddenly breaking the silence over the picturesque French countryside, saying, “Tens of thousands of years ago. . .” Herzog, with a tiny crew of only four people, is allowed rare access into what may be the oldest cave paintings by Ancient Man, found in France.
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