“He swum 22 000 miles, he laughs in the face of crocodiles, piranhas and giant anacondas, there is a man who drinks two bottles of wine a day”. If you can’t read what it says on the poster right there, here is the promise of “Big River Man“.

New Orleans director John Maringouin found a Slovenian marathon swimmer, Martin Strel, who made headlines back in 2007 breaking a swim record in the Amazon, and made a really Herzog-alike movie out of him. A movie where the truth doesn’t matter much, and where a person having some serious spychological breakdown becomes the best entertainer. Outrageously cynical.