2008 Films

Award Winner Rescreening 03: Man on Wire

• Man on Wire

  
  2007. United Kingdom. 90 mins. Directed by James Marsh. Produced by Simon Chinn. A Magnolia Pictures release.

  In 1974, young Frenchman Philippe Petit brought New York City to its knees when he balanced for nearly an hour on a high wire suspended 1,350 feet above the ground between the recently erected Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. He crossed the wire eight times before being hauled off by police. By the age of twenty-four, Petit had already scaled Notre Dame and the Sydney Harbor Bridge to accomplish similar feats, but the Twin Towers was his ultimate obsession and no obstacle would stand in his way. Through dramatic archival footage, meticulous recreations, and intimate interviews with all involved, this deeply moving and exuberant documentary unveils the extraordinary preparations it took to pull off the “artistic crime of the century.” ST

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