JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION

In Select Theaters August 22nd

WORLD PREMIERE | 2018 Berlin Film Festival
DIRECTED BY | Julien Faraut
PRODUCED BY | William Jehannin and Raphaelle Delauche
RUN TIME | 94 Minutes

SYNOPSIS | Written and directed by Faraut and narrated by Mathieu Amalric, JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION revisits the rich bounty of 16-mm-shot footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe, at the time the world’s top-ranked player, as he competes in the French Open at Paris’s Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Close-ups and slow motion sequences of McEnroe competing, as well as instances of his notorious temper tantrums, highlight a ”man who played on the edge of his senses.” Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe’s attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the sport of tennis and the human body and movement, and finally how these all intersect with cinema itself

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection – Official Trailer