The Tale of a Man Who Tightrope Walked between the Twin Towers!

The film title ‘The Walk’ rather undersells this movie. It refers to the most dizzying feat of high-wire daring ever accomplished – Frenchman Philippe Petit’s walk between New York’s Twin Towers in 1974, shortly after their construction.

Thanks to the brilliance of director, Robert Zemeckis (who directed Back to the Future, Cast Away), the stunt, or “coup” as Petit and his team refer to it, is brought to life in a thrilling way.

The final heart-pounding 40 minutes of the movie are a ‘coup de cinema’, as Zemeckis recreates the walk (110 storeys above ground) and the tense hours which preceded it.

Petit and his crew navigate extraordinary hurdles, including sneaking into the buildings with heaps of equipment and then assembling the wire; a process which involved firing an arrow from one tower to the other. It’s a must-see flick!