"Geyrhalter proves again that he is a unique figure in world cinema."
"Images of Kubrickian strangeness, like pictures from another planet, some distant, grim, mineral-rich moon that we are callously exploiting because we don’t care about it."
"An eco-documentary with eerie and scalp-tingling landscapes.“
The Guardian

„One of the most detailed, well-researched, poignant and epic environmental documentaries in recent years.“
Cineuropa

„There’s an essential dialectic at work in the films of Nikolaus Geyrhalter. Although his documentaries assume a critical perspective on their often sobering subjects ... they also always contain a strong element of awe at the grandeur of the human enterprise and achievement on show. His preferred aesthetic strategy involves shooting from a distanced and fixed camera position to create monumental tableaux that are at once impressive and terrifying, and a lot of the films’ moral and political power derives from the disconcerting tension between these two poles.“
Sight & Sound