The Alpinist (2021)
1h 33m
Running Time
February 7, 2021Release Date
The Alpinist (2021)
1h 33m
Running Time
February 7, 2021Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Marc-André Leclerc, an exceptional climber, has made solo his religion and ice his homeland. When filmmaker Peter Mortimer begins his film, he places his camera at the base of a British Columbia cliff and waits patiently for the star climber to come down to answer his questions. Marc André, a little uncomfortable, prefers to return to the depths of the forest where he lives in a tent with his girlfriend Brette Harrington. In the heart of winter, Peter films vertiginous solos on fragile ice. He tries to make appointments with the climber who is never there and does not seem really concerned by this camera pointed at him "For me, it would not be a solo if there was someone else" . Marc-André is thus, the "pure light" of the mountaineers of his time, which marvel Barry Blanchard, Alex Honnold or Reinhold Messner, interviewed in the film. An event film for an extraordinary character.
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Cast & Crew.
Marc-André Leclerc
Self
Brette Harrington
Self
Alex Honnold
Self
Reinhold Messner
Self
Ueli Steck
Self (archive footage)
Dean Potter
Self (archive footage)
Derek Hersey
Self (archive footage)
Jon Walsh
Self
Tommy Caldwell
Self (archive footage)
Austin Siadak
Self
Peter Mortimer
Self / Director
Barry Blanchard
Self
Michelle Kuipers
Self
Ben Bryan
Producer
Will Stanhope
Self
Clark Fyans
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 7, 2021
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Content RatingPG-13
Box Office$1,218,734
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
mountain
climbing
mountain climbing
biography
patagonia
mountaineering
british columbia
escalade
solo climbing
mountain pioneer
alpine climbing
Wiki.
The Alpinist is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen about Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist. From 2015 to 2016, a film crew followed Leclerc as he solo climbed some of the most difficult and dangerous alpine climbing routes in the world.
The film was produced by Sender Films and Red Bull Media House, and distributed by Universal Pictures and Roadside Attractions. The film was given a limited release on September 10, 2021 in the United States. It received generally positive reviews from film critics and from the climbing media, who compared it favorably to the 2018 documentary Free Solo.
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