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I went to the press screening of Alex Gibney's The Armstrong lie at Sony last night.
It's part standard cycling doc giving a background of Lance and the usual explanation of cycling to the layman.
Gibney was given exclusive access Lance during the 09 comeback tour and I could see that they had to make something of all the footage that was shot. So the bulk of the doc is the story of the 09 tour and there's some cracking footage of that and also some brilliant moments when Bertie is attacking Lance much to the massive annoyance of Johan B. But it all carries the theme of "he doped, he lied, he cheated" through it.
There's more interviews with Lance, one only 3 hours after the Oprah interview, as well as some good contributions from interested others like Hincapie, Betsy and Frankie Andrue as well as a very rare interview with Michele Ferrari.
There's no big revelations. I mean there's not much more to reveal really is there.. Lance still comes across as if he's being hard done by as all he was doing was what everybody else was doing. But I doubt he'll ever change that stance.
Over all it's a balanced and well made film. I was sat between two non cyclists and they told me after that they felt it was "compelling" and "gripping" so it's far from just a film for the buffs. And I have to agree with them.
Love or hate him it's well made and well worth seeing.