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Super Frenchie is a very good film that documents the efforts of base jumper/ski-base jumper Matthias Giraud to find ever-more-challenging cliffs to ski off.
The film spends some time addressing the inherent selfishness of extreme athletes like Mr. Giraud, for whom family and friends must take second place to the "need" of the athletes to challenge themselves to the rush of close brushes with death.
A serious injury coincides with the birth of Mr. Giraud's son and, very briefly, he seems to embrace that responsibility over the call of the steep cliffs. But, predictably, he's soon back on the hunt for the adrenaline highs of nature at its roughest.
The film seems less-personal than the recent Free Solo's examination of Alex Honnold's parallel pursuit of free-climbing challenges, but its seen-from-numerous-angles action sequences are just as nerve-wracking.
score 7/10
llboll 20 March 2021
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6719654/ |
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28-3-2021 05:32:02