Man on Wire was awarded a 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. This is so well-deserved. The film is one of my all time favourite documentaries, and provides a remarkable record of Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers.
Using archive footage, and filmed in the style of a heist, it shows what happens when one man had a beautiful but seemingly impossible dream, and then made that dream a reality against all of the odds.
I recently had the pleasure of seeing Philippe Petit talk about his life in person, and found him wonderfully charismatic and captivating. See it.
Trailer after the break.
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February 27, 2009 at 3:11 am |
I rented this one out yesterday after seeing it won the Oscar. I was wondering where his income was coming from, how he got the money to go back and forward to the US. It was really interesting though.
February 27, 2009 at 7:12 am |
Let’s hope it now gets another run on a few big cinema screens. Looked for it when it was first released and no cinema near me was showing it.
February 27, 2009 at 9:45 am |
Yeah i had the same issue Katherine, but i will be sure to rent this out soon.
February 27, 2009 at 5:51 pm |
Fantastic film – gripping and strangely moving.
Richard’s right – you should see it.
February 28, 2009 at 6:29 am |
The photographer who helped Petit in the planning stages of the WTC walk has set up a web site for the photographs that appeared in the film MAN ON WIRE.
http://moorepics.com
Great stuff..Go look at it!
March 8, 2009 at 4:19 pm |
Have now seen it. Borrowed the DVD from the local library. Just amazing, the sheer enormity of what Petit did. Very moving. A life changing event for all concerned. Will be thinking about it for quite some time to come.