Touching the Void
The closer you are to death. The more you realize you are alive.
The closer you are to death. The more you realize you are alive.
Action, Adventure, Documentary, Drama
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2003
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The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
106 min
Release date:
5 Sep 2003
Country:
GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$13,885,802
Awards:
Won 1 BAFTA Award8 wins & 10 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Touching the Void leaves you emotionally and physically spent, and grateful it was only a movie, not a mountain, you had to endure.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
26 Mar 2007
fresh:
Awesome and harrowing.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
26 Mar 2007
fresh:
As a meditation on extreme human endeavour, character, friendship and the mysteries revealed by facing death, it provides much food for thought.
– Wally Hammond,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
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.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
7 Aug 2004
fresh:
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.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
1 Aug 2004