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John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
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Written and directed by Julien Faraut and narrated by Mathieu Amalric, JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION 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.
Written and directed by Julien Faraut and narrated by Mathieu Amalric, JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION 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.
Actors:
Mathieu Amalric,
Ivan Lendl,
John McEnroe
Mathieu Amalric
25 October 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Ivan Lendl
March 7, 1960 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
John McEnroe
16 February 1959, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Genre:
Documentary, Sport
Director:
Julien Faraut
Country:
France
Keywords:
#Ivan Lendl #John McEnroe #John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection #Julien Faraut #L'empire de la perfection (2018) #Mathieu Amalric
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February 10, 2019
The only tennis documentary to set Sonic Youth's cyberpunk ode The Sprawl to a technique montage, Julien Faraut's wonderfully original film mixes film theory, cryptic analysis, and multiple break(ing) points to form a coolly intoxicating examination.
February 04, 2019
It's a different kind of sports film that caught my attention despite not being a tennis fan.
August 30, 2018
"Perfection" at times risks being too pleased with itself for its own good, but its one-of-a-kind credentials are never in doubt.
December 01, 2018
Faraut is less interested in how cinema affects tennis than how they overlap. He's searching for the line separating reality from performance, [proving] one doesn't exist.
August 27, 2018
Regardless of his enemy, the main event was McEnroe vs. McEnroe, in an unresolvable tiebreak of body and soul. There had been nothing like it, on public view, since the heyday of James Dean.
August 31, 2018
In the end, [Faraut] doesn't have quite enough of anything for a feature.
August 23, 2018
"John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection" is a sports documentary unlike any other, a beguiling and delightful piece of visionary non-fiction that uses its namesake to investigate the ontological nature of watching tennis.
August 29, 2018
McEnroe, Faraut asserts, was "a man who played on the edge of his senses." His film brings that home.
February 10, 2019
...at times the film feels like every character in a Wes Anderson movie got up and made a documentary on tennis.
November 14, 2018
There's a strange allure to the film, how it whimsically and playfully approaches one of the greatest tennis players to play the game from such unexpected angles.
November 09, 2018
All credit to Faurat for that ability to forge coherence out of such wildly disparate materials.
December 23, 2018
...proving that sport itself can be fundamentally cinematic and ripe with psychological drama when documented in a manner outside of the traditional systems designed for live or television viewing.
