Walking a Tightrope

Loosely inspired by the turbulent life of Jean Genet and starring the great Michel Piccoli, Nikos Papatakis' last film is a fascinating exercise in the balance between lust and toxicity.

Synopsis

In the 1960s, a famous gay writer and poet, a lover of the circus and its extreme dangers, makes it his sole purpose to turn a young Arab into the best tightrope walker in the world.