Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Charlotte Le Bon, Clément Sibony, César Domboy, James Badge Dale
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Running Time: 123 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: February 1st 2016 (UK)

It’s the 1970s and Frenchman Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a small-time street entertainer in Paris, dreaming of something big. He believes that he is a wire-walking artist and that he is bigger that drawing a chalk circle and balancing a few feet off the ground.

He decides that the ‘coup’ that he must achieve is to walk between the still uncompleted Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. It is a completely crazy idea – he doesn’t even know how far apart the buildings are – but after achieving a stunt to walk between the towers of Notre Dame, he begins to put his idea into action. [Read more…]