John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection documentary
- Original title
- L'Empire de la perfectionaka
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- John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
- In the Realm of Perfection
- Year
- 2018
- Running time
- 94 min.
- Country
France
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- Cinematography
- Genre
- Documentary | Sport Documentaries. Tennis
- Synopsis
- Written and directed by Faraut and narrated by Mathieu Amalric, this documentary revisits the rich bounty of 16-mm-shot footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe, at the time the world’s top-ranked player, as he competes in the French Open at Paris’s Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Close-ups and slow motion sequences of McEnroe competing, as well as instances of his notorious temper tantrums, highlight a ”man who played on the edge of his senses.” Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe’s attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the sport of tennis and the human body and movement, and finally how these all intersect with cinema itself.
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