‘Bucking Fastard’ Review: The Mara Sisters Commit to Werner Herzog’s Wonderfully Weird Bit as Lovestruck Twins Who Move and Speak in Unison

'Bucking Fastard' Review: Kate and Rooney Mara's Twin Schtick Only Gets You Halfway

Once upon a time, Werner Herzog became a meme. He never exactly sought out web stardom — Herzog is nothing if not analog — but the German filmmaker has cultivated a public persona that’s proved remarkably durable across two decades of online riffing: the unflappable adventurer, a deadpan Don Quixote who meets gunshot wounds, bear attacks and life’s general chaos with the same bemused fatalism. Manna from heaven for Internet geeks and improv comi…

‘Bucking Fastard’ Review: Kate and Rooney Mara Embrace the Weirdness in Werner Herzog’s Nutty but Thin Tale of Two Sisters Who Behave as One

Kate and Rooney Mara play sisters who speak and act in unison in 'Bucking Fastard,' Werner Herzog's fable about siblings on a restless quest for love.

Bucking Fastard Is Nucking Futs

‘Bucking Fastard,’ Werner Herzog’s tale of two sisters bonded so closely that they do everything in eerie, exact unison, is nucking futs. But it should have been transcendentally, galactically nuttier.

‘Bucking Fastard’ Review: The Mara Sisters Commit to Werner Herzog’s Wonderfully Weird Bit as Lovestruck Twins Who Move and Speak in Unison

Venice: The German fabulist's touching, eccentric, technically complex, and unclassifiable new film is destined to polarize.

‘Bucking Fastard’ review: Kate and Rooney Mara are perfectly in ...

The director’s absurdist drama premieres in Venice competition

Venice Review: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Is a Strange, Earnestly Heartfelt Oddity

Past a certain age and a certain number of features, a director will almost inevitably be embroiled in that stifling debate: have they reached their “late” style yet? What that means exactly can be tricky to articulate: writing about Beethoven, Theodor Adorno viewed late works of art as “devoid of sweetness, bitter and spiny”—masterful distillations […] The post Venice Review: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Is a Strange, Earnestly Heartfelt Odd…