I caught James Marsh’s documentary Man on Wire at Durham’s Full Frame festival in April and immediately labeled it the best film I’d seen this year. It’s still up there months later. I need to see it again and see how it stacks next to WALL-E, which I also adored.

But now that it’s starting to roll out - playing global festivals and national arthouse theaters - other opinions are floating across the wires. And another Sean heaps his praise on Marsh’s spellbinding caper of a story. The film chronicles Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in the mid-1970s. It’s mindblowing. And this week, Sir Sean Connery called Man on Wire “one of the best three films I have ever seen.”

That’s high praise. Probably too high. And I loved it!

But this might have something to do with it, as well. During the Q-and-A following the film at Full Frame, an audience member summed it up perfectly. He told Marsh (and I’m paraphrasing here), “Every time I saw an image of the World Trade Center, I saw 9/11. Now, I’ll think of your film instead. And I can’t thank you enough for that.”