Man On Wire - Film Review
March 7th, 2010 by Robert
Tightrope walking. Art form? Really? If I was to ask you to list the five most important artistic moments of your life, you’d probably immediately think of art galleries, novels, poetry, or theatre. Not tightrope walking. And yet, having seen Man On Wire and been enlightened as to the incredible feat of wonderful madman Philippe Petit’s audacious tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Centre in 1974, I now have a fuller understanding of what art can be.