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Watch Touching the Void
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In 1985, two young climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, set out to be the first to reach the summit of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The peak is reached, however on the descent Joe falls and breaks his leg...
Excruciatingly tense story of a terrible accident.
December 29, 2010
Variety
Awesome and harrowing.
March 26, 2007
Sacramento News & Review
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.
August 07, 2008
Orlando Sentinel
For a movie like this, touching the void just isn't enough. It has to touch the audience, too.
March 05, 2004
ColeSmithey.com
"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.
August 07, 2004
New Yorker
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.
August 01, 2004
Lessons of Darkness
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.