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Touching the Void
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In 1985, two young climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, set out to be the first to reach the summit of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The peak is reached, however on the descent Joe falls and breaks his leg...
In 1985, two young climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, set out to be the first to reach the summit of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The peak is reached, however on the descent Joe falls and breaks his leg...
Actors:
Nicholas Aaron,
Ollie Ryall,
Brendan Mackey,
Richard Hawking,
Simon Yates,
Joe Simpson
Nicholas Aaron
Ollie Ryall
Brendan Mackey
Richard Hawking
Simon Yates
1963, Leicestershire, England, UK
Joe Simpson
13 August 1960, Malaya
Genre:
Adventure, Drama, Documentary
Country:
United States, United Kingdom
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August 09, 2009
"Touching the Void" towers above the rest of that rarest of all film genres, the docudrama.
Variety
March 26, 2007
Awesome and harrowing.
Orlando Sentinel
March 05, 2004
For a movie like this, touching the void just isn't enough. It has to touch the audience, too.
Sacramento News & Review
August 07, 2008
This harrowing, white-knuckle tale of human endurance and gut-wrenching dilemma mingles the dramatization of these events and interviews with both climbers into an unforgettable, sometimes comically deadpan nightmare.
Common Sense Media
December 29, 2010
Excruciatingly tense story of a terrible accident.
Newsweek
March 26, 2007
Touching the Void leaves you emotionally and physically spent, and grateful it was only a movie, not a mountain, you had to endure.
February 09, 2006
As a meditation on extreme human endeavour, character, friendship and the mysteries revealed by facing death, it provides much food for thought.
November 04, 2010
"Void" plummets into the nucleus of instinct and consciousness - survival a near-primordial pursuit beyond bravery or weakness. It concocts no comfort about what was gained, but stares in transfixed, unforgettable awe at the horror of all that was lost.
May 04, 2005
About a primal war waged by man against both himself and the natural world that surrounds him.
New Yorker
August 01, 2004
The facts drop away, and it becomes impossible not to read the movie symbolically -- as a journey to the center of the earth, or farther still.
April 01, 2006
A slow starter which builds into a chilling depiction of the agonising disintegration of body and mind as they are exposed to the elements.
New York Magazine/Vulture
August 07, 2004
Most movies of this type re-create the action far from the actual scene of the crime, but Macdonald has invented a new subgenre: a docudrama in which the docu and the drama are equally authentic.
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