John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
Art of the Real 2018
April 26 - May 6, 2018
Faraut’s sophisticated and witty found-footage ode to tennis legend John McEnroe is an essayistic investigation into the poetics of athletics, taking as its point of departure Jean-Luc Godard’s maxim, “Cinema lies, sports doesn’t.”
Q&A with Julien Faraut
All ticket holders are invited to the Furman Gallery for an opening night pre-reception starting at 6pm and a reception following the screening.
Jean-Luc Godard once said, “Cinema lies, sports doesn’t.” Julien Faraut’s sophisticated and witty found-footage ode to tennis legend John McEnroe takes this maxim as its point of departure. An essayistic investigation into the poetics of athletics, the film is composed largely of 16mm footage of Johnny Mac competing in the 1984 French Open—clubbing magisterial aces while bickering to no end with umpires, ball boys, and courtside cameramen alike. In the Realm of Perfection inventively renders its subject as both a brilliant athlete and a complicated man utterly alone in his greatness, fueled by, as the film/tennis critic Serge Daney wrote, “the eternal injustice of which he and only he is the victim.” An Oscilloscope release. North American Premiere
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