Over the Limit

Name: Over the Limit
Genre: Sport, Documentary
Released: October 12, 2018
Duration: 74 min
Rating: 91
Cast: Amina Zaripova, Irina Viner, Margarita Mamun, Yana Kudryavtseva

2018

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Film Movement | Release Date: October 12, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Amina Zaripova, Irina Viner, Margarita Mamun, Yana Kudryavtseva

Summary: Over the Limit shows how the successful Russian system for training athletes transgresses boundaries. Elite rhythmic gymnast Rita Mamun has reached a crucial moment in her career. She’s soon to retire, but has one final goal set out for her: winning Olympic gold. A nail-biting behind-the-scenes drama about the intense physical and mentalOver the Limit shows how the successful Russian system for training athletes transgresses boundaries. Elite rhythmic gymnast Rita Mamun has reached a crucial moment in her career. She’s soon to retire, but has one final goal set out for her: winning Olympic gold. A nail-biting behind-the-scenes drama about the intense physical and mental labor put into a sport that thrives on its beautiful aesthetics. [Film Movement]… Expand

Director: Marta Prus

Genre(s): Sport, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 74 min

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Guy Lodge

Oct 8, 2018

The intense abuse captured in Marta Prus’s brilliant, diamond-hard documentary portrait of a Russian rhythmic gymnast’s punishing road to the 2016 Olympics is all too vividly real — just watching it induces veritable stomach cramps, though it’s impossible to turn away from the film’s whipcrack construction and expert manipulation of perspective. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Oct 11, 2018

Reports of excessively punitive training of female gymnasts surface with some regularity, so in that sense Over the Limit is not unexpected. But the Polish director Marta Prus, brilliantly constructing a very particular look at a sport in which the arch of an eyebrow is as important as that of a spine, remains coolly impassive. Read full review

Pat Brown

Sep 29, 2018

The film is composed of minutely observed moments that Marta Prus has assembled into an affecting narrative. Read full review

Neil Young

Oct 8, 2018

Obtaining all-areas access to Olympic-competing Russian star athlete Margarita Mamun, Prus records in intense detail the verbal and physical pressures to which the young woman is subjected by her fiercely determined coaches. Read full review

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Deanomite

Jan 20, 2020

Basically this girl gets berated for an hour by her coaches. I wonder if she will become a coach and be the same? I would have liked more scope, diet, schedule, that sort of thing. It must be very difficult to be adored by the world and mentally abused all day, she couldn't even be with herBasically this girl gets berated for an hour by her coaches. I wonder if she will become a coach and be the same? I would have liked more scope, diet, schedule, that sort of thing. It must be very difficult to be adored by the world and mentally abused all day, she couldn't even be with her dying dad until the day before he died. It was extremely surreal to see her win the Gold and not seem yo enjoy it.… Expand

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