The Alpinist (2021)
• February 7th, 2021 • 1h 33min
Documentary, Adventure
Overview
Marc-André Leclerc, an exceptional climber, has made solo his religion and ice his homeland. When filmmaker Peter Mortimer begins his film, he places his camera at the base of a British Columbia cliff and waits patiently for the star climber to come down to answer his questions. Marc André, a little uncomfortable, prefers to return to the depths of the forest where he lives in a tent with his girlfriend Brette Harrington. In the heart of winter, Peter films vertiginous solos on fragile ice. He tries to make appointments with the climber who is never there and does not seem really concerned by this camera pointed at him "For me, it would not be a solo if there was someone else" . Marc-André is thus, the "pure light" of the mountaineers of his time, which marvel Barry Blanchard, Alex Honnold or Reinhold Messner, interviewed in the film. An event film for an extraordinary character.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
Released on: 2019-10-02
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...
Barretão
Released on: 2019-10-23
Documentary
A story about how football, cinema, photojournalism and intimidation with power can come together in...
Grizzly Man
Released on: 2005-08-12
Documentary
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
For Your Eyes Only
Released on: 1981-06-24
Adventure, Action, Thriller
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find...
Drawn from Memory
Released on: 1995-04-25
Documentary, Animation
Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memori...
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker
Released on: 1996-10-22
Documentary
I Was a Jewish Sex Worker is a humorous, no-holds-barred autobiographical film about the director’s ...
Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Released on: 1994-05-13
Documentary, TV Movie
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
Julia Child: An Appetite for Life
Released on: 2005-01-01
Documentary
French chef and American institution Julia Child revolutionized home cooking in the United States, b...
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Released on: 1999-10-27
Adventure, Drama, Action, History, War
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...
The Last Man on the Moon
Released on: 2016-02-26
Documentary, History
The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
Released on: 2017-04-16
Music, Documentary
Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A s...
Heaven Adores You
Released on: 2014-05-14
Documentary, Music
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By th...
Who was Hitler
Released on: 2017-11-16
Documentary, History
Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...
Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
Released on: 2017-06-16
Documentary
"Hare Krishna!" is a documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada, the 70-year-old Indian Swami who a...
Mountain
Released on: 2017-11-30
Documentary
An epic cinematic and musical collaboration between SHERPA filmmaker Jennifer Peedom and the Austral...
Billie
Released on: 2020-09-30
Documentary, Music
‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Li...
Un instante en la vida ajena
Released on: 2003-09-12
Documentary
Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nin...