2015 · documentary · sport
Meru
Directed by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi1h 29m2015
Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
Our read: Meru (2015) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded documentary · sport entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured documentary / sport, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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