Review of Touching the Void (2003) by Kenneth Turan for Los Angeles Times — 09 Oct 2008
It's a nervy, quasi-documentary scheme that's often successful, perhaps more so than you'd expect for this kind of a hybrid endeavor. But Macdonald's technique eventually turns out to be as distancing as it is involving, paradoxically undercutting the reality as often as it enhances it.
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This review of Touching the Void (2003) was written by Kenneth Turan and published by Los Angeles Times on 09 Oct 2008.
Touching the Void has generally received very positive reviews.
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