John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection review - Superbrat court in the act

The tempestuous tennis star wages war against the world in documentary-maker Julien Faraut's philosophical portrait In this cherishably idiosyncratic essay-film, archivist Julien Faraut has spun documentarist Gil de Kermadec's raw footage of John McEnroe's fractious mid-80s progress at the French Open into the basis of a philosophical rumination - Herzogian voiceover by Mathieu Amalric - on tennis, cinema and life. Steady old Ivan Lendl gets barely a look-in on the other side of the net; the att...