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  • Actors: Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Richard Hawkins
  • Directors: Kevin Macdonald
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 4dvd
  • DVD Release Date: 17 Sep 2007
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000S399II
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,381 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A gripping, harrowing true-life story told with real skill, Touching The Void is one of the finest documentaries of recent years. It mixes in recreations of real life events with interviews, building up a head of tension that makes it hard to turn your eyes away from.

The story itself centres on two British mountain climbers by the name of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates. They head off to the Andes to climb Siula Grande, yet some way into the expedition, Joe Simpson falls and breaks his leg. At this stage he’s still attached to the support rope of Simon Yates, who struggles to bear his weight, and faces an impossible choice between continuing to hang on and face certain death, or cutting the rope and sending his friend plummeting down the side of the mountain.

Not only is this an extraordinary story, but it’s one that Touching The Void tells exceptionally well, with a focus and skill that rightly attracted the interest of award-givers. That those involved in the real-life adventure are telling you the story adds a real weight to the film, and director Kevin Macdonald--he who was behind the Oscar-winning One Day In September--weaves it all together quite brilliantly.

An unforgettable piece of cinema for many reasons, Touching The Void is an extraordinary telling of an extraordinary tale, and one that simply demands to be seen. Do make sure you see it. --Simon Brew

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In Touching the Void, director Kevin McDonald ("One Day in September") tells Joe Simpson's compelling story by combining talking-head interviews with Simpson and Yates, and stunningly photographed narrative footage, in which Simpson and Yates' ordeal is actually re-enacted on the Peruvian Siula Grande. McDonald's footage is both engrossing and eye-popping; it could easily stand alone as its own one-of-a-kind adventure film. The interviews, however, add depth to the film and make Touching The Void a unique, thrilling, and emotional piece of cinema.



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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I smoke 'em 'cos my names on 'em, 3 Oct 2008
By Alex DaLarge (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
Touching The Void was a film I bought by accident - I thought it was a Hollywood dramatisation of the book, and not a documentary. But I watched it anyway, and it is top-notch stuff. The photography of the South American mountains where all the crazy stuff happened is properly vertigo inducing.

Yes - this is one of the few cinema documentaries that can be classed as unmissable, along with 'Hoop Dreams', 'My Crasy Life', 'No Direction Home', 'The Grape Tapes', etc

The only negative thing I can say about Touching The Void is that its interviews are edited along with the visuals in a way that is just too similar to Michael Buerk's "999 Lifesavers".

Apart from that though - this is a class film.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating tale of survival in the face of impossible hardship, 21 April 2008
By L. Green "Feltano" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This film paints an intruiging picture. I'd call it a documentary as largely, it focuses around Joe and Simon's narration - yet at the same time we have the reconstructions to serve as a stunning visual backdrop and reall hammer the message of their story home. This film is a rollercoaster ride of emotions, from the initial sense of triumph and youthful ambition as they set out on the expedition up Peruvian mountain Siula Grande and reach the summit to the sense of upmost horror as things start to go wrong.

What makes it all the more poignant to the viewer is that Joe and Simon come across as such the everymen - they are normal men with ambitions just the same as any of us and their charisma at conveying their story and the skill at which the reconstructions are shot really puts us in their place. And of course, as the tale progresses we realise just how courageous they are, having never expected really expected things to go quite so horrendously wrong, the terror is palpable and i can only marvel at how they kept going through it all - the cold, the altitude, the sheer enormity of it all is terrifying.

That is in essence the heart of Touching The Void, the tale of two ordinary men from Britain who prevailed against all odds to emerge as mountaineering legends. A brilliant film that holds appeal for anyone, this version also comes with an insightful behind the scenes documentary which shows as the two travelled back to the site for the first time in 20 years, that there is still a great deal of mixed emotions associated with the event.

A all-round ace film - check it out!
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5.0 out of 5 stars wow the real Superman, 1 Nov 2007
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I vote Joe for the real superman award, the most amazing survival story ever, a must see.
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