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Man on Wire
Description
The documentary is a look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers on August 7, 1974. He danced on this wire for an hour with no safety net before he was arrested for what has become to be known as the 'artistic crime of the century.'
The documentary is a look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers on August 7, 1974. He danced on this wire for an hour with no safety net before he was arrested for what has become to be known as the 'artistic crime of the century.'
Actors:
David Demato,
Shawn Dempewolff-Barrett,
Joel Ney,
Megan Delay,
David Forman,
Robert Sciglimpaglia,
Philippe Petit,
Barry Greenhouse,
Jean-Louis Blondeau,
Ardis Campbell,
Jim Moore
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David Demato
Shawn Dempewolff-Barrett
Joel Ney
Megan Delay
David Forman
Robert Sciglimpaglia
19 November 1966, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Philippe Petit
13 August 1949, Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France
Barry Greenhouse
Jean-Louis Blondeau
Ardis Campbell
Jim Moore
Genre:
Documentary
Country:
United States, United Kingdom
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AV Club
October 18, 2008
It's a story worth telling, yes -- but after 90 minutes, it's hard not to wonder if the storyteller can talk about anything else.
May 07, 2009
It all makes for an absorbing, mischievously amusing yarn, whose climax unfolds with unexpected emotional force.
October 01, 2015
...captures the mysterious beauty of Petit's obsession, without ever being so gauche as to 'explain' it.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 18, 2008
The erasure of the towers adds poignance and irony to a documented event that is inherently thrilling and beautiful.
September 30, 2015
...cheekily irreverent
October 18, 2008
By any rational gauge, Petit's WTC obsession was flat-out crazy, but Marsh takes a limpid, nonjudgmental view of it all.
April 08, 2011
The pains of the public eye are acknowledged just as much as the joy this artistic endeavour brought people.
October 18, 2008
Though we know how it ends, it unfolds with suspense. And though it lacks any discussion of the towers' destruction, it succeeds as a tribute to their birth.
September 19, 2010
Despite a known outcome, James Marsh's documentary offers sublime thrills - grafting the tense suspense of a heist film onto an existential dissection of artistic accomplishment and true friendship.
November 03, 2015
Exhilarating docu about high-wire feat has some edgy scenes.
November 10, 2008
In this exhilarating, palm-moistening documentary by British filmmaker James Marsh (Wisconsin Death Trip), the twin towers are back to celebrate one of their finest moments.
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