It’s impossible to see everything at Sundance, but I was still bummed that I missed out on Senna, Asif Kapadia’s film that won the World Cinema Audience Award for Documentary. The film centers on F1 racing legend Ayrton Senna and his achievements off and on the track. Ramses was floored by the film when he caught at the Los Angeles Film Festival (where it won the Audience Award):
Kapadia purposefully only uses stock footage of Senna, an excellent score, and some bits of voice over to construct a classic film narrative and the final product is amazing. Senna has so many moments that will give you chills and it is all due to the way that Kapadia is able to manipulate all of this stock footage.
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Click over to Apple to see the trailer in HD. Senna opens August 12th.
Here’s the official synopsis for Senna:
Senna’s remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend’s years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later. Far more than a film for F1 fans, SENNA unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques in favor of a more cinematic approach that makes full use of astounding footage, much of which is drawn from F1 archives and previously unseen.
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Matt just to let you know as I watched this in the UK.
It’s brilliant, best documentry since Taxi to the Dark Side for me.
Felt like I was watching a feature film as well, with Senna doing V.O work for his own life
Also felt it was Kapadia’s best film and I loved The Warrior.
Saw this the other night, Probably the best documentry I have seen in a long while, if not ever. Its beautiful, poignant, gripping, heartbreaking.
The way its editted and created it almost transcends documentry status and starts to feel like a very stylized piece of drama. You have to keep reminding yourself, those are the persons actual true emotions, they are the actual people living out these actual moments infront of you. (Yes, I know thats what a documentry is a lot of the time, but the way the film has such a strong narrative for a documentry it adds such an extra dimension) All of that on top of the fantastic score makes it the best film I’ve seen all year.
Closer to the Edge was a really good doc as well David, if you wanna see another one to the standard of Senna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QldZiR9eQ_0