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TOUCHING THE VOID DVD Simpson, Joe.
By Simpson, Joe.
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2003, 1 hour 47 minutes. To describe Touching the Void as a mountaineering documentary would be to do this breathtaking drama an injustice. By intercutting narration from the climbers themselves with a nail-biting reconstruction of their remarkable adventure in the Peruvian Andes, the film has the best of both genres: the authentic stamp of factual storytelling and the edge-of-the-seat tension of a dramatic movie.
In 1985, two British mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, embarked on a daring attempt to climb the previously unconquered mountain Siula Grande. A mixture of confidence in their own abilities and the climb's difficulties brought them to grief after the successful slog to the summit. What follows is an often harrowing account of their perilous descent. Based on Joe Simpson's gripping book, the film boasts glorious widescreen photography of Siula Grande and its notorious glacier. Actors take the place of the two climbers for close-ups, though Simpson did return to Peru in order to reenact parts of his dreadful crawl back down the ice.
The story of Simpson's almost-superhuman fortitude has become legendary in climbing circles, and even for viewers uninterested in mountaineering,
Touching the Void
is an astonishing slice of real-life drama, magnificently retold. DVD features Touching the Void is presented on DVD in anamorphic widescreen, which makes the most of the glorious vistas, and Dolby 5.1 sound. In addition to a making-of featurette, two short extras are invaluable appendices to the main feature: 'What Happened Next' tells in their own words how the team made it back home, while 'Return to Siula Grande' finds both Joe and Simon back at the mountain in the summer of 2002 to advise on the filming; emotions are mixed at best, as Simon seems unable to express his real feelings about the experience, and Joe finds himself painfully reliving the ordeal in his mind, as well as in front of the cameras. Also includes the original theatrical trailer.
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