2018 · documentary · tv-movie · sports
Andre the Giant
Directed by Jason Hehir1h 24m2018
An ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated career in WWE, and his forays in the entertainment world.
Our read: Andre the Giant (2018) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary · tv-movie · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle documentary / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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