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- "The Void" sounds irresistible, but it's poorly paced, thinly plotted, and unimaginative throughout its bloody special effects-centric set pieces. The film's plot is wafer-thin, but that's not the biggest problem.
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Feb 6, 2004 · The movie is about Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, two Brits in their mid-20s who were determined to scale the forbidding west face of a mountain named Siula Grande, in the Peruvian Andes.
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Mar 12, 2004 · Touching the Void: Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, Joe Simpson. The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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- Documentary, Adventure, Drama
- Kevin Macdonald
- 2004-03-12
Sep 5, 2003 · In 1985, two young climbers, Joe Simpson (Brendan Mackey) and Simon Yates (Nicholas Aaron), set out to be the first to reach the summit of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes.
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- Kevin Macdonald
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- Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron
Touching the Void is a 2003 survival documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson and Simon Yates ' near-fatal descent after making the first successful ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985.
Jan 23, 2004 · Something of a tour de force, this adaptation of Joe Simpson's nonfiction book about his climbing the 21,000-foot Siula Grande mountain in Peru, breaking a leg, and eventually making it back alive is remarkable simply because the story seems unfilmable. Read More. By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW. 90.
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- Kevin Macdonald
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This harrowing, white-knuckle tale of human endurance and gut-wrenching dilemma mingles the dramatization of these events and interviews with both climbers into an unforgettable, sometimes ...
TOUCHING THE VOID tells the true story of 20-somethings Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, who set out to be the first climbers ever to climb the west face of the 21,000-foot Siula Grande in the Andes. They make it to the top, but on the way down Simpson falls and shatters his leg.
