John McEnroe is having a bit of a moment, at least on movie screens. You might assume that it doesn’t get any better than being played by Shia Labeouf in a mediocre biopic, but the notoriously volatile tennis legend has — by little virtue of his own — somehow become the subject of an even more remarkable tribute that’s been decades in the making. Julien Faraut’s “John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection” is a sports documentary unlike any other, a beguiling and delightful piece of visionary non-fiction that uses its namesake to investigate the ontological nature of watching tennis.
Wait, keep reading! It’s a lot more interesting than it might sound. Entirely culled together from hours and hours of gorgeous 16mm footage shot by Gil de Kermadec (the former technical director of the French Tennis Federation), Faraut’s hypnotic portrait looks at the game through the lens of film theory,...
Wait, keep reading! It’s a lot more interesting than it might sound. Entirely culled together from hours and hours of gorgeous 16mm footage shot by Gil de Kermadec (the former technical director of the French Tennis Federation), Faraut’s hypnotic portrait looks at the game through the lens of film theory,...
- 8/22/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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