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John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
Description
A documentary set at the final of the 1984 French Open between John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl at a time when McEnroe was the world's top-ranked player.
A documentary set at the final of the 1984 French Open between John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl at a time when McEnroe was the world's top-ranked player.
Actors:
Ivan Lendl,
John McEnroe,
Mathieu Amalric
Ivan Lendl
March 7, 1960 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
John McEnroe
16 February 1959, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Mathieu Amalric
25 October 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Genre:
Documentary, Sport
Director:
Julien Faraut
Country:
France
Keywords:
#Ivan Lendl #John McEnroe #John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection #Julien Faraut #L'empire de la perfection (2018) #Mathieu Amalric
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February 04, 2019
It's a different kind of sports film that caught my attention despite not being a tennis fan.
August 31, 2018
In the end, [Faraut] doesn't have quite enough of anything for a feature.
August 23, 2018
"John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection" is a sports documentary unlike any other, a beguiling and delightful piece of visionary non-fiction that uses its namesake to investigate the ontological nature of watching tennis.
December 23, 2018
...proving that sport itself can be fundamentally cinematic and ripe with psychological drama when documented in a manner outside of the traditional systems designed for live or television viewing.
February 10, 2019
The only tennis documentary to set Sonic Youth's cyberpunk ode The Sprawl to a technique montage, Julien Faraut's wonderfully original film mixes film theory, cryptic analysis, and multiple break(ing) points to form a coolly intoxicating examination.
November 09, 2018
All credit to Faurat for that ability to forge coherence out of such wildly disparate materials.
August 30, 2018
"Perfection" at times risks being too pleased with itself for its own good, but its one-of-a-kind credentials are never in doubt.
February 10, 2019
...at times the film feels like every character in a Wes Anderson movie got up and made a documentary on tennis.
November 14, 2018
There's a strange allure to the film, how it whimsically and playfully approaches one of the greatest tennis players to play the game from such unexpected angles.
August 27, 2018
Regardless of his enemy, the main event was McEnroe vs. McEnroe, in an unresolvable tiebreak of body and soul. There had been nothing like it, on public view, since the heyday of James Dean.
December 01, 2018
Faraut is less interested in how cinema affects tennis than how they overlap. He's searching for the line separating reality from performance, [proving] one doesn't exist.
August 29, 2018
McEnroe, Faraut asserts, was "a man who played on the edge of his senses." His film brings that home.
