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The Alpinist( 2021)

TV-MADocumentary
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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Marc-André Leclerc

      Self

    2. cast image

      Brette Harrington

      Self

    3. cast image

      Alex Honnold

      Self

    4. cast image

      Reinhold Messner

      Self

    5. cast image

      Ueli Steck

      Self (archive footage)

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      Dean Potter

      Self (archive footage)

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      Derek Hersey

      Self (archive footage)

    8. cast image

      Jon Walsh

      Self

    9. cast image

      Tommy Caldwell

      Self (archive footage)

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      Austin Siadak

      Self

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      Peter Mortimer

      Self

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      Barry Blanchard

      Self

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      Michelle Kuipers

      Self

    14. cast image

      Will Stanhope

      Self

    15. cast image

      Will Gadd

      Self

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      Ryan Johnson

      Self (archive footage)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Mar 28 2022
    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 accompani...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    1218734.00

    Keywords

    • mountain
    • biography
    • climbing
    • patagonia, argentina
    • mountain climbing
    • mountaineering
    • british columbia
    • alpine climbing
    • escalade
    • solo climbing
    • mountain pioneer