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Touching the Void

The closer you are to death. The more you realize you are alive.

2003 · 1h 46m · R Action, Adventure, Documentary, Drama
Directed by Kevin Macdonald

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Overview

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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94%
Tomatometer
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
Fresh

Awesome and harrowing.

Todd McCarthy, Variety
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
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
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

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