Film Knights | Man on Wire | Dir. James Marsh | USA | 2008
Tue July 1st 6:45pm | Curzon Soho | *Free* + a free drink to mill about in the Curzon bar with afterward
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On the morning of August 7, 1974, New Yorkers looked to the skies in Lower Manhattan to see a solitary man, clad in black, dancing across a wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex. That man was French performance artist Philippe Petit, and his story is recounted in James Marsh’s enthralling documentary, Man on Wire.
With a command performance from Petit himself as well as interviews, archival footage, photographs and dramatic reconstructions, Marsh weaves an epic account of this criminal conspiracy, nearly eight years in the making. Man on Wire is a larger than life documentary, befitting the astonishing achievements and outsize personality of Petit, that has established itself as an audience favourite at festivals around the world.
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