Remy Tezier: Au delá des Cimes
Catherine Destivelle is the name and after numerous films (at the Trento Film Festival) about people dying in the mountains, and about heroes who save people, or fight the mountains – it was such a relief to meet a female alpinist, a charming person, smilingly taking her sister and a friend up and up and up, in sunshine, for a picnic, while you hear their conversation on the way, and while you watch the most beautiful shot images of her routes, plus some archives, plus some interviews.
Alpinism can be a Pleasure! And alpinist films can convey presence in the good old observational style. An informational film it is as well, with narration, not too much (a French actor narrates, not a good choice)
She is a winner but behaves with modesty always with a lowered voice and a non-competitive esprit .
The sweet ending – also without any drama – is a trip up with two older male friends, on the same route where she years ago fell 35 meters down.
France, 2008, 75 mins.
