Touching the Void

GB 2003. D: Kevin Macdonald. 106 min. HD Video>35mm. Viewed at DocPoint, Forum 1, Helsinki, 15 Jan 2005. Reconstructed true story of the 1985 trek of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates in the Siula Grand Mountain in the Peruvian Andes. More thrilling than most thrillers, a profoundly moving study on the fight for life in extreme danger. The funniest moment: at the edge of the bottomless ravine the man hears in his mind the music of Boney M ("Brown Girl In A Ring"), even though he does not even like it.