Le Sabotier du Val de Loire vs Touching the Void

Touching the Void has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.8/10 for Le Sabotier du Val de Loire). Le Sabotier du Val de Loire is the shorter watch at 24m compared with 1h 46m. Le Sabotier du Val de Loire is the older of the two (1956 against 2003). Both are documentary, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Le Sabotier du Val de Loire posterLe Sabotier du Val de Loire1956 VS Touching the Void posterTouching the Void2003
Le Sabotier du Val de LoireTouching the Void
Audience score★ 6.8/10★ 7.6/10
Year19562003
Length24m1h 46m
GenresDocumentary, DramaAction, Adventure, Documentary, Drama
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorJacques DemyKevin Macdonald
Main castYves Demy, Georges RouquierNicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Ollie Ryall, Joe Simpson, Richard Hawking

Synopsis

Le Sabotier du Val de Loire

This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.

Touching the Void

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

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