Phillipe Petit's wirewalk between the World Trade Towers is something I knew about but never thought much about and in fact I tended to dismiss whatever he did as the work of a serial pest like a streaker at a football game, but to watch him here progress his idea from fanciful notion in a dentist's waiting room to a death-defying feat high above an awe-struck America, is - even after so much maudlin, cringeworthy faux-Frenchness - extremely moving...and especially moving given the way the film juxtaposes Petit's contribution to history with the contributions of certain others.
★★★☆☆
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