SuperFrenchie review: Chase Ogden treats the making of a young family nearly as seriously as he does the thrills of flight in his documentary on Matthias Giraud
swooshes down a peak in France before hurtling himself into thin air. Behind him a vast shelf of snow cascades, with Giraud’s and photographer Stefan Laude’s cameras capturing the avalanche. It’s a pretty wild sight — and not just because Giraud is whooping with did-you-see-that enthusiasm once he’s on the ground., “Super Frenchie” shares some DNA with Oscar-winner “Free Solo.
“I love speed. I love air,” he tells us early on. “I don’t think it’s changed much. It’s getting worse.” A tragic revelation midway poses the question, Is Giraud’s calling an addiction or a repudiation? It also hints at the life-affirming nature of his seemingly death-courting vocation. In the months leading up to the baby’s due date, Mattias tries to cram in more jumps — or “projects” as he calls them — in order to take time to be present for the birth. Days out, he heads for one last project: jumping from a peak in the mountain ridge above the village of his childhood vacations. For a guy attuned to his intuitions, he quells a sense of something being off. He jokes at a planning session with two colleagues that he doesn’t want to leave his femur on the cliff.
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