断崖絶壁に命綱なしで挑む若き天才アルピニスト、マーク・アンドレ・ルクレールに密着したドキュメンタリー。世界有数の岩壁や氷壁を、たったひとりで命綱もつけず登るというクライミングスタイルの「フリーソロ」を貫いてきたマーク・アンドレ・ルクレール。名声を求めない彼自身の性格から世界的な知名度はほぼ皆無だが、不可能とされていた数々の難所に挑み、新たな記録を次々と打ち立てていく。そんな知られざる天才に、これまでクライミングを題材にしたドキュメンタリー作品を数多く手がけてきたピーター・モーティマー監督とニック・ローゼン監督が密着。雄大な自然を背景に、体力と精神力の極限に挑むマークの姿を、臨場感あふれる映像で映し出す。
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監督: Nick Rosen / Peter Mortimer
制作: Scott Bradfield
制作会社: Roadside Attractions / Universal Pictures / Dogwoof / Red Bull Media House
Rarely can I have seen a documentary with so much recent, and active, participation from a man about whom I knew nothing beforehand but for whom I actually cared by the middle of the film. The term "free-spirit" is entirely suitable to describe the young Marc-André Leclerc, a man who spends his time travelling the globe ascending sheer cliffs of rock that would give an eagle acrophobia. The film could also have been called "the Individualist". The young man wasn't a loner, in any social sense, but he preferred the exhilaration of climbing - and enduring all the hostile conditions that accompanied that - on his own. Only reluctantly, I thought, did he agree to allow the photographers to accompany him - and boy, what photography they have created. We really get a sense of not just the peril as the young man climbed these monumental pieces of rock (without a rope), but of the sense of adventure, of determination and of purpose that drove him to tackle these toughest, and frequently beautiful, of obstacles that nature could put in his path. There are a few, poignant, contributions from fellow climbers, the photographers, his mother and his girlfriend - but somehow we don't really need them - this is a story about a young man determined to live his life on his own terms. Got to be an Oscar contender.
