Jun 16 2008
To The Limit reviewed
Another linked review…
I reviewed Pepe Danquart’s newest documentary To The Limit this past week. It’s out in theaters on a limited release as of this weekend. This film is the third installment of a trilogy of documentaries, including Hell on Wheels, which focus on extreme lifestyles, to simplify what seems to tie these films together.
To The Limit follows the Huber brothers, a pair of German speed climbers, as they attempt to break the world speed climbing record on Yosemite’s The Nose (an incredibly steep and complicated facade in the midst of the national park).
You can read the review to get my full digression on the film, but I’ll add a prelude. The film doesn’t really work, it’s interesting, it has some beautiful cinematography, but it ultimately fails to draw the audience into it’s drama. The actual conflicts of the story are very thin. The director fails to find the connection of this story to the rest of the world to make it apply to society at large, like the directors of Steep did in their extreme skiing documentary.
