Love is quite literally in the air for Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus. They’re the daredevil Russian couple who make a living “rooftopping”, as in they illegally climb up spires and cranes mounted atop skyscrapers. And then they express their affection in breathtakingly delicate poses, embracing each other while holding on to the ledge as if with their fingertips; all for the ’gram.
They flaunt that Bonnie & Clyde romance in Skywalkers: A Love Story, a doc that is alternately propulsive, trite and uplifting as it builds up towards the day in 2022 when Nikolau and Beerkus scaled the world’s second-tallest skyscraper. The viral moment, captured with selfie sticks and drone cameras from Kuala Lumpur’s Merdeka 118, didn’t just attract headlines but also immediate questions from authorities who wondered how the couple got past the building’s security and whether the couple perhaps faked their purported feat.
