MAN ON WIRE James Marsh
2008 Appeared in the journal Sequences
After searching a misery in America Wisconsin Death Trip, the Englishman James Marsh flies over the heights of Manhattan with his documentary about the exploits of French Philippe Petit, the tightrope walker who conquered so completely illegal the towers of the World Trade Center in New York in 1974. In the manner of a thriller, Man on Wire reconstituted with an amazing amount of video and photo archive this extraordinary feat, which is as much a performance worthy of the Guinness Book of Records as 'terrorism' artistic.
Beyond is a weapon that could be replicated today, Marsh takes advantage of the intriguing personality of a sort of guru verbo-motor in the service of beauty and happiness, and reveals the general update an unknown art, tightrope walking, usually confined to circuses between man-cannon and hoops inflamed. It is said that man could not crack that during the Nixon years, and his court to see Baba-cool how much of the feet and hands to help him realize his dreams and make this practice an apotheosis of ephemeral.
Taken from the autobiography "To Reach the Clouds," published recently by Petit, Man on Wire chooses a bill that restrains a bit mechanical at times poetic impulse has attempted to infuse the clan Petit in their approach. Despite his obvious talents of storytellers and very evocative gestures, the omnipresence of small in the film, imposed by the tightrope walker to producers when negotiating rights to adapt, boosts the ego more passionate about the void that the right (past) to his cronies, who all agree to appear before the camera Marsh, and their eventual estrangement with him, leaves the viewer skeptical about the immediate implosion of the gang once completed the New York bravado.
Ultimately, the spectacular outweighs the film, and it is surprising that the new archives are able to provide the thrill and ecstasy sought much more than narrative interventions of the director.
© 2009 Charles-Stéphane Roy
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