RANULPH FIENNES EXPLORER FILM ARCHIVE

With exclusive access to Ran and his incredible film archive built up over decades of expeditions, EXPLORER tells the definitive story of a unique life of adventure but it goes beyond a simple retrospective, delving deeper into the audacious and eccentric dreams of one man to explore the complex motivations behind them. But who is the man who prefers to be known as just ‘Ran’? At 60, he ran seven marathons, on seven consecutive days, on seven continents…after a double heart bypass and went on to climb Mount Everest and the North Face of the Eiger. He cut off his own frostbitten fingers with a saw after a trip to reach the North Pole unaided, and he was pipped to the post by Roger Moore when auditioning to play James Bond. Among his extraordinary achievements he has circumnavigated the surface of the globe from pole to pole, crossed the Antarctic on foot, broken countless world records and discovered a lost city in Arabia.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE - is credited as being the world’s greatest living explorer. The boat can be seen in the film, as can Anton who has been a friend of Sir Ranulph Fiennes for more than 40 years.Ī portrait of the “world’s greatest living explorer” Sir Ranulph Fiennes, a film that goes beyond the record-breaking achievements to explore the man behind the myth. Retrieved 4 September 2022.STOP PRESS: We are delighted to have Sir Ranulph Fiennes boat, the Boston Whaler, on display outside the cinema prior to the screening and to have Anton Bowring along to introduce the film. Archived from the original on 4 September 2022. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022. 'Explorer, review: a magnificently-hewn tribute to the life of Sir Ranulph Fiennes'. 'Explorer review – Ranulph Fiennes on frostbite, family and James Bond'. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022.

Nell Minow for gave the film a 3.5 star rating writing that the 'organization of the film is distracting' however the subject is 'never less than enthralling'. Įmpire contributor Ian Freer gave a 4 star rating, writing 'If it adds little in the way of dissenting voices or a different viewpoint, Explorer tells the tale of a remarkable, stranger-than-fiction life and emerges as an affecting, entertaining portrait of a true eccentric'. The film holds a metacritic score of 81 denoting reviews as 'universal acclaim' which includes a 3 star review by Cath Clarke for the Guardian and a 5 star review by Robbie Collin for the Telegraph. It was released to video on August 30, 2022.

Cast Įxplorer was released to theatres on July 14, 2022. The film includes both contemporary and archive footage and covers many of aspects of Fiennes' life including self- amputation of his fingers due to frostbite, involvement in the Dhofar Rebellion, leading the Transglobe expedition, being booted out of the SAS, running 7 marathons on 7 days on 7 continents, auditioning for James Bond, and reflections on his personal and family life. Explorer is a 2022 biographical documentary film about the life and exploits of British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, directed by Matthew Dyas.

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