Man on Wire<\/em><\/a> takes us inside one of the greatest and most dangerous acts in history, and does so in a way as to give us the full experience as if we were in on it from the very conception of the idea.<\/p>\nThe film chronicles the charming Frenchman, Petit, and the team he assembled to help him gain access to the towers, while informing us as well on Petit\u2019s history.\u00a0 We see footage of Petit\u2019s warm up performances with the towers of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia.\u00a0 There are interviews with Petit, his ex-wife, his friends that helped him, and inside men that assisted as well.
\nThe film has the appearance of a political thriller or a heist, showing the time and location, black and white footage mixed with color home movies, reenactments of various stages of planning and bypassing security, still photographs, and stock footage.\u00a0 The film is itself a hire wire act, a credit to editor Jinx Godfrey, building tension until the amazing, breathtaking act is carried out.\u00a0 Along the way there is plenty of anecdotal humor to keep the audience amused.<\/p>\n
Throughout the film there is an underlying sense of melancholy as we look upon the towers from their construction to their completion knowing their fate.\u00a0 At their inception the site looks eerily as it did at their demise and we are too well aware of the last time \u201cNorth\u201d and \u201cSouth\u201d tower were indicated to us with a time stamp.\u00a0 Petit\u2019s act is one more way of honoring the towers that have left a void in the New York Skyline.<\/p>\n
It would seem irresponsible to place Man on Wire<\/em> among the greatest documentaries ever without first letting it stand the test of time and yet, that is its rightful place.\u00a0 It is thoroughly engaging and expertly crafted, and when it is all over you only wish there could have been more.\u00a0 It is already a winner of the Audience Award and Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival and will undoubtedly have more awards in its future including an Oscar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reviewed by Byron Potau.\u00a0 Viewed at the LA International Film Festival. It is the unique documentary that can put us on the edge of our seat even though we know what happens in the end.\u00a0 We already know that tightrope walker Phillipe Petit has walked a wire between the two World Trade Center towers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-los-angeles-international-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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