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Open-air cinema: Borg / McEnroe

As part of the Traversées du Marais 2022 festival and in the middle of the Olympiad – the 4-year gap between two editions of the Olympic Games – the Institut Suédois invites you to an open-air screening of the film "Borg / McEnroe".
Start date:
02 Sep 2022
Category:
At the Institut Suédois
Location
Institut Suédois, Rue Payenne, Paris, France
Time
21:00 - 23:00
The actors playing Björn Borg and John McEnroe's parts posing next to each other on a tennis court, with their public behind them.
Photo Pretty Pictures

Written by Ronnie Sandahl and directed by Janus Metz, this film takes us into the mind and emotions of one of the world’s greatest sport icons, the Swedish tennis player Björn Borg, during the legendary standoff with his main rival, the young, talented John McEnroe, at Wimbledon in 1980. It’s the story of two men who changed the face of tennis and secured a place in its hall of fame—and of the price they had to pay.

1hr 48m, biopic, Sweden/Finland/Denmark, 2017, In Swedish with French subtitles.
Directed by Januz Metz
Screenplay by Ronnie Sandahl
With Sverrir Gudnasson, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny
Distribution France: Pretty Pictures

Trailer

Useful information

  • Admission free while space lasts.
  • Enter through the garden gate at 10 rue Elzévir. Gate opens at 8.30 pm.
  • Subject to cancellation if it rains.