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Title: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga<\/strong><\/p>\n

Directors: Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Werner Herzog has lived life as a sort of cinematic pirate, striking out to and fro, and using the medium of film more often than not to satisfy his immense, globe-spanning curiosities, in both narrative features (“Fitzcarraldo,” “Rescue Dawn”) and documentaries (“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”). A stirring meditation\u00a0on the human spirit in extreme conditions, and a work\u00a0of a certain piece with his nonfiction explorations “Grizzly Man” and “Encounters at the End of the World,” Herzog and Russian co-director Dmitry Vasyukov’s “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga” delves into the lives of trappers and indigenous peoples living around Bakhtia, a remote town of 300 in the wintry plains of Siberia.<\/p>\n

An unforgiving\u00a0expanse one-and-a-half times the size of the\u00a0United States, where\u00a0a temperature of 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit is considered a mild day in the winter, the Siberian Taiga is reachable only by helicopter or boat. The movie centers mostly on Gennady, a middle-aged trapper who oversees a 900-square-mile parcel of land, consigned to him during communist times, where he clears snow from his main cabin and outpost dwellings, splits wood to make skis, strips birch tree bark to make a homemade mosquito repellent, and constructs and sets 1,000 traps during the springtime months —\u00a0all using techniques passed down from many generations.<\/p>\n

“Happy People” was originally\u00a0birthed by Vasyukov, who, not terribly unlike the filmmakers of “Restrepo,” lived for over a year with his subjects in remote Siberia, in order to craft a four-hour work for Russian television that captured and celebrated this fading way of life. This film represents Herzog’s edit of that, but it’s no mere unthinking abridgement. Anchored by a characteristically ruminative voiceover from the filmmaker, “Happy People” also reflects Herzog’s passion and fascination for the often unforgiving nature of the wild.<\/p>\n

The footage itself is fascinating, but more in line with something like “Interview Project” or “Darwin: No Services Ahead” than the willful aesthetic remove of Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s minimalist “Sweetgrass.” Vasyukov and Herzog have a keen, intuitive grasp of when\u00a0to let this material speak mostly\u00a0for itself — as with the construction of a wooden canoe by one of the last indigenous persons trained in the craft — and when and where to\u00a0interweave Gennady’s ruminations on his work and life, and its relationship to something like domesticated farming (“In the wild an animal knows that no good can come from me, from man — here, it’s about who outsmarts whom”).<\/p>\n

Living in such extreme conditions\u00a0is part of its story,\u00a0but “Happy People” also highlights the dignifying effects\u00a0that nature has on humans. (Gennady talks about despising greed in trappers — those that would set their traps too early, in an effort to turn cheap coin.) In this sense, the film’s\u00a0surprising emotional scope\u00a0is as expansive as its setting.\u00a0It’s a mesmerizing portrait of human resilience, but a reminder as well that we remain tethered to the natural world, despite our increasingly wireless existence in a digital age.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> “Happy People:\u00a0A Year in the Taiga” opens this week in Los Angeles at the Nuart Theatre.<\/p>\n

Technical: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n

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