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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.
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Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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.
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FILMINK (Australia)
February 10, 2019 ...at times the film feels like every character in a Wes Anderson movie got up and made a documentary on tennis.
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Jaredmobarak.com
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.
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San Diego Reader
August 31, 2018 In the end, [Faraut] doesn't have quite enough of anything for a feature.
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indieWire
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.
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New Yorker
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.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
February 04, 2019 It's a different kind of sports film that caught my attention despite not being a tennis fan.
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Los Angeles Times
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.
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Boston Globe
November 09, 2018 All credit to Faurat for that ability to forge coherence out of such wildly disparate materials.
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San Francisco Chronicle
August 29, 2018 McEnroe, Faraut asserts, was "a man who played on the edge of his senses." His film brings that home.
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Film School Rejects
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.
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The Sunday Age
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.
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