If everybody else jumped off a cliff, you might not follow suit. But Carl Boenish, the subject of this documentary, would still have wanted to share the feeling of it with you, most likely via his helmet-mounted 16mm camera. For the founder of BASE jumping, plunging thousands of feet along a sheer cliff face was a way of "glorifying mankind's beautiful adventure." (Why doesn't anyone talk that way any more?) Boenish found a soul mate in his wife Jean, who found her husband's avocation "as pleasant as camping" and took the plunge(s) with him. Writer director Marah Strauch has a wealth of brightly colored, breathtaking material to work from, much of it filmed by Boenish himself, and much of the rest of it featuring him in interviews and recordings (plus the occasional reenactment). The result is as much the portrait of a marriage as it is history of a sport and its founder, and if it occasionally feels repetitive or murky, its moments of magnificence remain undimmed. (2014) — Matthew Lickona
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