In 1985, two young climbers appear, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates. They are the first two to reach the top of the Siola Grande in the Andes, Peru. In this movie, there will be a detailed look at where the climax is reached, but on a deadly landing it breaks all restrictions.
Excruciatingly tense story of a terrible accident.
Variety
March 26, 2007
Awesome and harrowing.
Sacramento News & Review
August 07, 2008
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 comically deadpan nightmare.
Orlando Sentinel
March 05, 2004
For a movie like this, touching the void just isn't enough. It has to touch the audience, too.
ColeSmithey.com
August 09, 2009
"Touching the Void" towers above the rest of that rarest of all film genres, the docudrama.
Most movies of this type re-create the action far from the actual scene of the crime, but Macdonald has invented a new subgenre: a docudrama in which the docu and the drama are equally authentic.
New Yorker
August 01, 2004
The facts drop away, and it becomes impossible not to read the movie symbolically -- as a journey to the center of the earth, or farther still.
Lessons of Darkness
May 04, 2005
About a primal war waged by man against both himself and the natural world that surrounds him.
"Void" plummets into the nucleus of instinct and consciousness - survival a near-primordial pursuit beyond bravery or weakness. It concocts no comfort about what was gained, but stares in transfixed, unforgettable awe at the horror of all that was lost.
