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A paragliding acro and XC journey takes five friends flying around the world from their home in Gruyère, Switzerland, to New Zealand, Morocco, Patagonia, Argentina and Mexico.

The ultimate paragliding road trip is a well-used formula, but nevertheless it’s still been a long time since someone tried to challenge the might of Sean White’s multi award winning movie from 2004, Never Ending Thermal. Gravity Never Sleeps takes the challenge on head on.

52-minutes long and in both French and English, Gravity Never Sleeps throws you into the world of five young Swiss pilots. Switzerland, if you don’t know already, has a reputation for breeding amazingly talented pilots, fly there once and you’ll understand exactly why.

Gravity Never Sleeps begins high above the plains of the country in a hot air balloon where you are pitched headfirst from the basket in a rollover dive, before throwing you into some of the best intro graphics you’ll ever see in a paragliding movie – the work of Baptiste Cochard, they are Hollywood in a Monty Python-esque way!

Over the next 52-minutes the film whisks us on a beautifully shot aerial tour of some of the most amazing places to fly in the planet, blending itself with revealing insights into the characters themselves.

The locations are fantastic and the standard of production superb, and if you are interested in flying in any of these places you’d do well to get a copy of Gravity Never Sleeps to immerse yourself in prior to your trip. If you just need to sit back and revel in a great flying film then Gravity Never Sleeps will do you proud and remind you of exactly why you fly.

But does Gravity Never Sleeps surpass Never Ending Thermal? It’s certainly a close run thing. Gravity Never Sleeps has already picked up one film festival award in 2010 and been profiled in several magazines, so expect great things from it in 2010.

This DVD is available in PAL format ONLY.

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Gravity Never Sleeps, teaser from Julien Magnin on Vimeo.

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Alan Wallwin, Rated: 1

But you will if you watch this.

I don't know which body gave this DVD an award but it certainly doesn't deserve it. It's basically a very dull travelogue about a group of guys walking up hills in a few countries then deciding it's too rough to fly so they walk back down the hills. Intersperse that with some pythonesque graphics as separators and nonsense about keeping bees and strumming guitars and their other hobbies and you have a totally mind numbing film the main content of which totally overwhelms the few minutes of paragliding in it. I don't know what grieves me most. The fact that I paid good money for this rubbish or that I actually sat and watched it all hoping it would improve. I intend to write to xcshop to see if I can get a refund. I shall certainly advise them to get rid of any stock they may have left. Honestly it is dull dull DULL. The only way this DVD will ever sparkle is if I whack it in the microwave on high for a few minutes (which may not be a bad idea come to think of it).

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