2003 · survival · mountaineering · reenactment
Touching the Void
Directed by Kevin Macdonald1h 46m2003
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Our read: Touching the Void (2003) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded survival · mountaineering · reenactment entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme survival / mountaineering, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
Watching Touching the Void tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Touching the Void feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want white-knuckle mountaineering survival told through interviews and brutal reenactments.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if extreme alpine peril and moral dread will keep you awake.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Touching the Void, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →