Man on Wire

James Marsh's Oscar-winning, fascinating, jaw-dropping, unevenly paced documentary that intertwines interviews with accomplices, news clippings, home movie footage, still photographs, and partial reenactments to chronicle the insane dream of daredevil French high-wire tightrope walker Philippe Petit to perform "the artistic crime of the century" by illegally rigging a steel cable between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and performing the unimaginable, crazy, mind-blowing, 45-minute feat of crossing the cable eight times while suspended 1,350 feet above the streets of Manhattan in August of 1974.
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