Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
82%RT Audience Score: 68%
Awards & Nominations: 2 wins & 1 nomination
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World finds Werner Herzog bringing his distinctive documentarian gifts to bear on a timely topic with typically thought-provoking results
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World is a fascinating and thought-provoking documentary that explores the impact of the internet on our lives. While some critics found the film to be sporadic and lacking focus, I found it to be a humorous and comprehensive meditation on our connected world. Werner Herzog’s humanist approach to the documentary asks a lot of questions, and instead of providing answers, he invokes a desire to discuss these ideas on our own. Overall, Lo and Behold is a must-watch for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and humanity.
Production Company(ies)
Asghar Farhadi Productions, Dreamlab Films, MPAAPSA Academy Film Fund,
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
Filming Location(s)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some thematic elements
Year of Release
2016
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:1.78 : 1
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Runtime:1h 38m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Aug 19, 2016 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 22, 2016
Genre(s)
Documentary
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $765,796
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $943,842
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,611
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 102,927
US/Canada gross: $594,912
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $733,228
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,249
US/Canada opening weekend: $114,273
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $140,841
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,807
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Dave Arnold – Executive Producer
Jim McNiel – Executive Producer
David D. Moore – Executive Producer
Director(s)
Werner Herzog
Writer(s)
Werner Herzog
Producer(s)
Werner Herzog, Rupert Maconick
Film Festivals
Sundance
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 1 nomination
Academy Awards
All Critics (142) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (132) | Rotten (10)
Lo and Behold seems to be stoking fears that our tools are evolving beyond our capacity to control them, which offers an intriguing twist on his usual theme of the indifference of nature.
July 9, 2018
Adam Nayman
Vice
TOP CRITIC
As with many Herzog films the results are complex, endlessly fascinating, sometimes disturbing and often weird.
February 17, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5
David Stratton
The Australian
TOP CRITIC
A lesser Werner, but still worth dipping your brain into.
November 2, 2016 | Rating: 3/5
Dan Jolin
Empire Magazine
TOP CRITIC
It’s a sporadically fascinating film that dips its toe into many different themes where perhaps it should have chosen to immerse itself in just one or two.
October 30, 2016 | Rating: 3/5
Wendy Ide
Observer (UK)
TOP CRITIC
He specialises in stories about impossible dreams and defying nature and for his latest film Werner Herzog turns to the most ambitious, abominable creation of them all: the internet.
October 27, 2016 | Rating: 4/5
Ed Potton
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
It’s Herzog’s uncertainty as a tourist in the field that gives the film its enticing charge, as surely as his wanderings in the Antarctic, or gropings in the dark to find the world’s oldest cave paintings.
October 27, 2016 | Rating: 4/5
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
TOP CRITIC
Herzog’s humanist approach to the documentary asks a lot of questions, and instead of providing answers, he invokes a desire to discuss these ideas on our own.
April 11, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4
Brian Eggert
Deep Focus Review
Thoroughly comprehensive and often humorous meditation on our connected world, Lo and Behold is yet another masterwork by a master chronicler of human experience.
July 17, 2020
Dustin Chang
ScreenAnarchy
As in many of his other films, the subject matter is paradoxically both crucial and incidental: Lo and Behold is a film about the internet in the same way that Fitzcarraldo is about an opera house, or Grizzly Man is about some guy who really liked bears.
February 4, 2020
Ingrid Burrington
Hyperallergic
Lo and Behold presents an excellent start of a conversation, but…you won’t be getting any answers here.
December 7, 2019 | Rating: 2.75/5
David Harris
Spectrum Culture
It’s clever and funny in parts, and there’s plenty of food for thought, but it’s also pretty scary by the end of it.
October 23, 2019
Linda and Al Lerner
Movies and Shakers
There is poetry in that, and it’s not lost on scientist Leonard Kleinrock, who recounts the story in Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World.
August 5, 2019
Michael J. Casey
Boulder Weekly…
Plot
Werner Herzog’s exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no goofy or funny or odd comment about the film in the Fresh Kernels database.
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