Man on Wire official movie trailer

Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center and is based on Philippe Petit's book, To Reach the Clouds.
It competed in the World Cinema Documentary Competitionat the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary and the World Cinema Audience Award: DocumentaryIn an interview conducted during Man on Wire's run at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, director James Marsh explained that he was drawn to the story in part because it immediately struck him as "a heist movie". Marsh also commented that as a New Yorker himself, he saw the film as something to give back to the city. He said he hopes to hear people say that they will now always think of Petit and his performance when recalling the World Trade Center's twin towersResponding to questioning as to why the towers' destruction 27 years later was not mentioned in the film, Marsh explained that Phillippe Petit's act was "incredibly beautiful" and that it "would be unfair and wrong to infect his story with any mention, discussion or imagery of the Towers being destroyed.The film's producer, Simon Chinn, first encountered Philippe Petit in 2005 on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs when he decided to pursue him for the film rights to his book, To Reach the Clouds.
Man on Wire has won the prestigious Special Jury Award and Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the International Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film The film has also won the Jury Prize and Audience Award in the World Cinema: Documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival. To date, Man on Wire is only the sixth film ever in the history of Sundance to pick up both top awards and the first from outside the USFilm review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 100% of the 136 reviews they have collected have been positive, making it "The Best of All Time" reviewed film on their site.

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[stavsounds]

Truly amazing! Although it doesn't mention the WTC it is a beautiful memorial for them and there's so many parallels that can be drawn from the then and now. Art for arts sake.

[tusciapieva]

Wonderdfull 

[1980johnnyboy]

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