2013 · documentary · sports
The Armstrong Lie
Directed by Alex Gibney2h 4m2013
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, "I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one."
Our read: The Armstrong Lie (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded documentary · sports entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured documentary / sports, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- bleak
- cold
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