The Cave of Forgotten Dreams

[thesummerqueen]

I debated where to put this, and decided it belonged in art because....well...that's what it is.

I've wanted to watch this documentary since it came out a couple years ago, and now that we have a netflix account I found it.

I don't even know how to verbalize how powerful the imagery is in this movie, at least for me. We see pictures of cave paintings, but I had never seen them lit with moving shadows, as if by torches, so that you saw the movement and fluidity inherent in the paintings masterfully executed in what would have been in some places crushing darkness relieved by torch or possibly crude lamps. And all of it set against the impossible beauty of caverns in the earth's belly.

So basically, I'm telling you that you should watch this.

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams