Man on Wire
- warm
- redemptive
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
Our read · Man on Wire (2008) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Man on Wire
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