| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Won | Oscar | Best Documentary, Features James Marsh Simon Chinn |
Discovery Films
Directed by James Marsh
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Magnolia)
(Sundance)
A French street magician and tightrope walker decides to walk across the newly built World Trade Center towers in NYC. He enlists the help of his friends and girlfriend, who recall the event over 30 years later. The excitable Philippe Petit claims his motivation was to "do something beautiful", but after watching the film it seemed more a like a self-centered stunt. Petit and friends find immense pleasure in sneaking into the towers, hiding from security guards and thwarting the police. Only the actual act, or at least the description of it by friends, elicits any kind of emotional reaction. The rest of it seemed like a bunch of kids on drugs doing very risky, very dumb things. If he had fallen and died, he would not be a hero, but an idiot, possibly a murderer if he had landed on someone.
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