Man on Wire
Director: James Marsh
Year: 2008
Stars: Philippe Petit, Jean-Francois Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix
I wasn't sure how interesting you could make a film about a man walking across a wire between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York. It turns out, pretty interesting.
I first heard about this a while ago, reading about it in a film magazine. The review was really positive, and although I was intrigued, I was unsure about it. The film works because the central character, Philippe, is both incredibly charismatic and totally mad. After watching him in this documentary for an hour and a half, you're a lot closer to understanding why he chose to perform a totally illegal act and string up some wire across the two towers to walk across (I'm making it sound a lot easier than it was).
The film makes you think too though - in the end, was it worth it? There's more of a story to tell here than you might think, and it's a rewarding hour and a half of film viewing.
Rating: 4 out of 5
About Me
- Anna Lawson
- I live in Bristol with my husband Dan (who I married in July 2007), my son Joe (born 2012) and daughter Jess (born 2015). I work at UWE (the University of the West of England) in Bristol as a Research and Open Access Librarian. I'm orginally from Exeter, so moving back to Bristol is a bit like coming home - especially as I studied for my undergraduate degree here (also at UWE). I love travelling and movies, although I get to do a lot less of both since the birth of our children. Although we have still managed to fit in holidays to the Isles of Scilly, Chamonix and a summer in California since Joe was born.
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